Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) Everyone knows (most everyone) Paul is a lefty, but I never knew Ringo was too, and he plays a right handed kit. Someone told me that other day. I looked it up, and yep he was right. Edited July 17, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 How about that. Never knew that either. But the right-handed kit doesn't surprise me as we already know there are/were several left handed people who played guitar right-handed. Glen Campbell is the only one I can come up with at the moment. Oh, and me too. Whitefang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad1 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Duane Allman and Gary Moore were both left handed and played guitar right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) My son is a lefty, but plays guitar as a righty, and he batted right handed when he played baseball as a kid. Edited July 17, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROWB8 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Just now, brad1 said: Duane Allman and Gary Moore were both left handed and played guitar right handed. Me thinks there are more ppl out there like that. I'm a lefty and play RH guits. Growing up in the 60s, 70s, there weren't a lot of lefty guits produced. I started out sneaking into the practice room at 12yo, playing my older cousins SG that was RH. I've seen clips on youtube of some who play lefty, but use a RH guit thats still strung right handed. That's odd to see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) Jimi Hendrix was a lefty using a right handed guitar (usually a Strat) in case anyone didn't know. Edited July 17, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROWB8 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Jimi Hendrix was a lefty using a right handed guitar (usually a Strat) in case anyone didn't know. I believe they were strung for a lefty, so..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Jimi Hendrix was a lefty using a right handed guitar (usually a Strat) in case anyone didn't know. Apparently not.. He was right handed but learned to play left as a way to make himself stand out more (thats what I heard anyway). Edited July 17, 2022 by Rabs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 minute ago, CROWB8 said: I believe they were strung for a lefty, so..... Yes. I think I read and know that Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff plays left handed, but just uses a right handed guitar but plays it lefty, and leaves the strings how a righty would string it. Didn't Albert King do that too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearbasher Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 I'm right-handed and play a right-handed instrument. But, I always wondered, if you're right-handed your right hand would be more dexterous. So, why don't right-handed people fret with their right hand and strum with the left? The fretting takes more dexterity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROWB8 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) I was a product of stereo typing in the 60s. School teacher asked me if I looked like my father (brown hair LH) or mother (blonde RH). Told her father. Hence I was taught to write LH. Consiconsequently, writing, eating, fine dexterity tasks, I do as a lefty. But *most all sports, I do as a righty. Edited July 17, 2022 by CROWB8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Rabs said: Apparently not.. He was right handed but learned to play left as a way to make himself stand out more (thats what I heard anyway). Yeah I just looked and it said he was ambidextrous, but learned to strum with his left hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROWB8 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, gearbasher said: I'm right-handed and play a right-handed instrument. But, I always wondered, if you're right-handed your right hand would be more dexterous. So, why don't right-handed people fret with their right hand and strum with the left? The fretting takes more dexterity. Always thought the same as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsongs Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Everyone knows (most everyone) Paul is a lefty, but I never knew Ringo was too, and he plays a right handed kit. Someone told me that other day. I looked it up, and yep he was right. Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROWB8 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 https://www.scienceofpeople.com/why-are-you-right-or-left-handed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Fact: if a left-handed person sees someone drop $20, it's not yet known whether he or she is more likely to return it or pocket it, because I believe no studies have been done on it. Yeah yeah okay, bedtime for me... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 hours ago, gearbasher said: I'm right-handed and play a right-handed instrument. But, I always wondered, if you're right-handed your right hand would be more dexterous. So, why don't right-handed people fret with their right hand and strum with the left? The fretting takes more dexterity. Maybe, what about finger pickers? The right does a lot of work when doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 24 minutes ago, Pinch said: Fact: if a left-handed person sees someone drop $20, it's not yet known whether he or she is more likely to return it or pocket it, because I believe no studies have been done on it. Yeah yeah okay, bedtime for me... Sweden should commission a study and you should take the lead in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Sweden should commission a study and you should take the lead in this. 👌 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Ringo credits his unorthodox style to the fact that he plays a right handed kit as a lefty. His grandmother thought left-handedness was caused by the devil or some nonsense and forced him to do everything right handed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearbasher Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 2 hours ago, saturn said: Ringo credits his unorthodox style to the fact that he plays a right handed kit as a lefty. His grandmother thought left-handedness was caused by the devil or some nonsense and forced him to do everything right handed. My older sister was forced to write with her right hand by the nuns in Catholic School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I’m left-handed. Write and throw left. Bat and play guitar right. I finger pick 95% of the time. Have no idea why I do things that way. Life is full of questions and I have very few answers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 10 hours ago, gearbasher said: I'm right-handed and play a right-handed instrument. But, I always wondered, if you're right-handed your right hand would be more dexterous. So, why don't right-handed people fret with their right hand and strum with the left? The fretting takes more dexterity. My life experience disagrees strongly with this. I'm left handed, very left handed, but they weren't no left handed guitars laying around for me to pick up at age 11. So I played right handed. At the tender age of about 23 I realized that my greatest weakness, contrary to what everyone told me, was my picking. I literally started over, practicing and focusing and building my right hand into the picking/strumming/harmonicsing/muting/wang barring machine it became in another five years or so. Attack and dynamics all start back there. A weak picking hand shows under the stress of high volumes and too much gain, a place I am all too familiar with. So you kids listen to yer oldsters. It most definitely takes two hands working together, with equal dexterity, to make one of these confounded guitars work. Finish your vegetables and go practice. You'll thank me some day. rct 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsongs Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, gearbasher said: My older sister was forced to write with her right hand by the nuns in Catholic School. I’m left handed but play Guitar right handed.. I only had access to right handed Guitars so that’s what I learned to play.. In my early School days my Teacher smacked my hand with a wooden Ruler trying to force me to write right handed. I would try to write right handed but I would write from right to left on the paper backwards.. You’d have to hold up to a mirror to read it.. . My Teacher thought I was smarting off to him & hit me harder. I told my Dad.. My Dad was 6’ 3” & was about 220 lbs.. He was a WWII Army Vet. He went to the School & told them to stop or there would be a serious problem.. They stopped… Those were different times… I remember being told that left handed people were the mark of the Devil…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 16 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Maybe, what about finger pickers? The right does a lot of work when doing that. As a finger picker myself, I'd go along with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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