Here's the thing:
While watching The Blues Band recently I couldn't help notice that Gary Fletcher played bass guitars left handed, and strung for a leftie, but when he sang and switched to 6-string, he picked up a right-handed strung guitar Dave Kelly had been using, and played it upside down like Libba Cotten/Jimi Hendrix.
To someone like me, to whom all instrumental playing is a mystery, this seems strange. Obviously, with all the instruments they bring on stage he could have had his own left-hand strung guitar. I'm guessing he learned to play 6-string upside down before he could afford a lefty but when he learned bass he learned the "proper" way on a lefthand strung instrument.
Is it more difficult to switch back having learned the "upside down" way than to play different ways on different instruments? Do any of you play, say, banjo or mandolin one way and guitar another, rather than have them all strung lefthanded?
RtS (I'm sure Bob "53" would like to collate any replies!)
(I can play my kazoo & washboard either way up, they sound just as bad)