"Peter Ward"
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news:9dbm241i94ikrc88vgm8p86u319mencspu@4ax.com...> On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:12:09 +0100, Mike Harrison wrote:
>
>>>He's playing a right-handed guitar up-side-down because there weren't
>>>any left-handed guitars around where he grew up.
I learned on a right-handed accoustic which I re-strung "the wrong way up".
Since I don't read music properly, it's still a bugger having to transpose
chord symbols, although I think that's just my problem - I might be
left-handed but I don't always "see" things left-handedly. I think I'm a
bit ambidextrous (altogether now: "Gah! I'd give my right arm to be
ambidextrous!").
>>Left handed guitars have to be ordered specially, and only the more
>>expensive ones have a southpaw option, so if you don't have the dosh
>>you'll have to learn on somebody else's right handed one.
>
> There is, or used to be at least, a shop in London, Leytonstone if I
> remember correctly, which stocks left-handed guitars - I got my Eggle
> from there. But many guitar shops have one or two left-handed guitars
> in stock, although the models aren't usually of the best.
>
> Left-handed basses are far more rare, I got mine from that same shop
> mentioned above, and have very rarely seen one anywhere else. I even
> went to a specialist bass shop up near the river (can't remember
> where, but near or in Woolwich), and they didn't have a single
> left-hander.
When I retired and had a few bob, I wanted to pursue my teenage ambition of
getting a left-handed Fender Stratocaster. I spent two years searching, and
only finding ones at silly prices, before I was lucky enough to find one for
sale, locally, that was a bargain. They are as rare as rocking-horse sh*t,
though.
--
Harry Keane
