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Thread #49150   Message #741400
Posted By: Grab
03-Jul-02 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: instruments: left v right?
Subject: RE: instruments: left v right?
BluesLife, I think classicals don't have compensated bridges, so you should be able to just restring it the other way round.

Electrics are only "handed" as far as the body shape goes - the intonation can be adjusted to go either way. Hendrix used a right-handed guitar but played it left-handed.

Mark Knopfler incidentally is a lefty but plays right-handed. He said that he preferred it that way, bcos then his strongest and most dextrous hand (or "most sinister", possibly ;-) is in control of the melody.

Re Huw, apparently bands envied the Beatles bcos having a lefty on the band meant that they got a nice "symmetry" on stage of one guitar neck pointing one way and one pointing the other. So not always a disadvantage!

Graham.