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Left-Handed Guitarists, do you use a left or right-handed guitar? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have always wanted to play guitar, and now that i am an adult with adult money i am finally going to learn. I am a lefty, and i do just about everything lefty and always have. archery is about the only thing i know i do righty and that is because the gear i had access to as a kid was right-handed.

I have access to a right-handed guitar, but not to a left-handed guitar to compare.

Curious what other sinister guitarists think before i shell out cash for a lefty.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I’m left handed and play right handed. 99% of the guitars out there are right handed. It’s so much easier to find gear for righties. I also like the idea of being able to be at a party or a beach or a jam or a whatever and get handed a guitar and be able to play it, rather than have to say “sorry, I’m a leftie.” Playing right handed hasn’t felt weird or anything, it’s been fine.

Now, that being said, I know of several lefties who play right handed guitars… literally just learned how to play it upside down. They still can get handed a right handed guitar and they can just deal with it. It’s pretty wild to watch them play, but they manage. I also know a left handed fiddle player who similarly plays right handed fiddles but just does it backwards. Wild stuff.