onewilyfool Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Population studies show consistently 10% of folks are lefties. I think there are only a few in our forum?? Can you guys come out of the woodwork and identify yourselves??? Amazingly, I'm almost certain that guitar manufacturer's don't dedicate 10% of their inventory to left handed guitars???!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I write & throw left handed, but play guitar right handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR GIBS Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I throw left handed. When I started to write as a kid I started with the left hand, but my father and the school teacher "fixed" me to write with the right hand. I kick balls with the left foot. I can play tennis with both hands. I play guitar with the right hand. When started to learn (and I remember that) never had the desire to play lefty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 This reminds me of the guy who said, " I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Same here. Throw, write, kick as a leftie, but play guitar right-handed.........I agree with your comment regarding guitar makers. I see very, very few left-handed guitars. Seems I see more right-handed guitars played left-handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The dman Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I'm probably 70% lefty and 30% righty but have been playing guitar lefty all my life. If I could step back in time I would have tried to learn righty but it's too late for that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I write and eat left handed but throw, kick, play guitar and steel right handed. If you think left handed guitars are rare...try finding a left handed steel. I've only ever seen one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I'm 100% left handed . JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin 1940D28 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Left handed. Play guitar, 5 string, and steel guitar right handed. My father and brother the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayyj Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Another traitor here I'm afraid, lefty in most things but guitar right handed. I've played violin from early childhood, so I guess I already had a firm impression of which hand went where when I took up the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Any Left handers in N. California??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I write & throw left handed, but play guitar right handed. In addition to my post above: >Kick with the left foot. >Shoot baskets right handed. >Use utensils right handed. >Like Mr Gibbs, they tried to change my writing as a kid, but I'm a lefty. >And like Mr Gibbs, the guitar naturally went to the right from day one. The variations in this thread are very interesting! If I played lefty, I'd probably buy right handed guitars & do McCartney conversions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin 1940D28 Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 onewilyfool asks "Any Left handers in N. California??? I think you can find anything you want in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobF_ Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I'm complidextrous. Write left, fork left, knife right ... throw a baseball/softball right, throw a football left. Kick left or right. Guitar right - I never even considered a lefty guitar. It just wouldn't feel right :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 I've gotta hand it to you guys….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robatsu Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Firmly left handed in everything except guitar playing (and the trumpet years ago). The friend who was teaching me the basics on guitar (it was my teen years) recommended that I learn to play right-handed. I didn't give it much thought, as I had played a "right handed" trumpet (I never heard of a left-handed one), and just ran with that. IMO, both hands are doing unnatural motions, so while left-handed guitars are ok, I think that maybe it doesn't make a big difference which way one starts to learn to play. Lots of instruments only come one way (pianos, etc) and actually guitars are probably the instrument with one of the greatest incidence of left-handed models. Not slagging on playing left handed, though, please don't take it that way. Maybe it does make a difference for some people, although there is really no way to test the proposition, other than having the same person learn it both ways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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