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[craigmcc1982]

I'm interested in learning to play but would require a left-handed guitar. Does anyone know of anywhere that sells them?

Also, would anyone be interested in teaching me a few chords?

[sadguy]

i believe u can find one at nakwon music arcade at jongno 3-ga subway station.

or you can do what jimi hendrix did and just flip the guitar upside down and string 'em that way.

[Globutron]

Left handed guitar players play right handed guitars all the time. If it's from scratch there should really be no difference.

In fact, as a guitarist, I find, given an analysis of my hands, I would probably naturally have been better off with a left handed guitar, even though I'm right handed.

My right hand has far more agility in the fingers and they can last much longer, but the wrist of my left hand is stronger (despite masturbation with the right hand).

To make it easier, you could just put songs on slow rewind and learn them backwards.

[brauggi]

I'm left handed. I play guitar right-handed. I've tried switching over to left-handed style, and it doesn't work, because my hands don't have the memory for that orientation. I think for guitar playing, it's less a question of which hand you write with, and more a question of where you're embedding muscle memory. Your hands will do what you teach them to do

[sadguy]

yeah if i was left handed, i would still try to play right handed gutiars because if you're out somewhere and there is a guitar laying around and you have that guitarist itch to pick it up and play a tune, YOU CAN'T because you started off playing on a left handed guitar and then you feel like crap that you never started learning on a right handed guitar.

and then you go to a party and you meet this girl and you hit it off and she asks you what your hobbies are and you say playing guitar and she's like "COOL! play me a song" and you know all these cool songs from bands that she's into but then you say "sorry, i can't, it's not a left handed guitar." and then some other dude comes in and plays all these awesome songs and she's wooed by him and you're walking home alone at 3am drunk and lonely and cursing at the sky "WHY WHY WHY!!!????"

so, just learn on a regular standard guitar.

[craigmcc1982]

Thank you for all of the responses.

I have tried to play a friend's guitar in a right-handed style but despite being left-handed, I found that I had more dexterity in my right hand.

Consequently, I probably have more power for strumming using my left. It's a real dilemma!

With regards to serenading women, I'm happily married so it isn't a concern!

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Isn't the guitar played with both hands. Anyhow, I'm left-handed on everything that I do, but the one thing that I do with the right(other than, ahem, well, you know) is fingerpicking.

[R. S. Refugee]

I play left-handed banjo and I have a left-handed guitar that I haven't gotten around to learning to play. If you'd like to buy it, I'd like to sell it because I don't think I'll actually get around to learning to play guitar though I greatly admire the instrument.

PM me if you want to discuss it.

Cheers.

P.S. Now with some people saying that it's actually an advantage to be a left-handed person playing a right-handed guitar, I guess my question is, "When was anything ever designed in order to make easier for a left-handed person?"

I'm very glad I play a left-handed banjo. I may get a left-handed mandolin next.

[youtuber]

If it feels more natural and comfortable for you to play left-handed, then that is best. Don't learn to play right-handed for the sake of "convenience".

I am left-handed and I went to Nagwon in Insadong in Seoul and bought a symmetrical guitar (Like Angus Young's from ACDC). The guy at the booth I bought it from simply switched the strings for me. Works perfectly fine.

It is probably a better idea to learn on an acoustic though. No sense dropping hundreds of dollars on a hobby you might hate.

[craigmcc1982]

Thanks once again for all of your contributions.

I've contacted R.S. Refugee regarding the purchase of his instrument. I'm presuming that it's acoustic as I'll be using it to learn in the first instance and then an upgrade may be possible!