Anybody else heard of "Daddy Dick" Richards? A musician from the NY Adirondack area. He died in a car accident just recently.

He played guitar and fiddle quite well. His left arm was off about 4" past the elbow joint.

I swear I am not making this up.'

He had a slide attached to the bit of forearm that was left, and tuned to a open chord.

Took me quite a while to believe it, even when I saw and heard it.

Peter.

P. S. would it make sense for Jeri to learn left-handed? I'm strongly left-handed but play righty 'cause I learned that way, not knowing there was a choice. So it ought to be possible the other way around.