My daughter, after being surrounded by guitars and music for her 21 years and now having left home, wants to learn to play the guitar.

When she was at school in Shetland she did start learn to play the fiddle. She is left-handed and learned to play in the conventional (ie right-handed) fashion. She seem to be happy enough this way but I was never too sure whether she would have found it easier and kept it up longer had she played it left-handed.

What would your advice be on what her approach to learning the guitar should be, apart from not teaching her myself?

Re-string the guitar or not?