Anyone ever switched from playing right-handed to left-handed guitar ?

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

I have enough problems playing right handed, I am not about to switch anytime soon just for fun, or to see how difficult it can be.

 

[PLX]

I have enough problems playing right handed, I am not about to switch anytime soon just for fun, or to see how difficult it can be.

 

[Beagle]

I'm left-handed but I learned to play guitar right-handed because I pinched my Dad's guitar to learn on, almost 60 years ago. Playing left-handed has never been on my agenda.

 

[PLX]

I'm left-handed but I learned to play guitar right-handed because I pinched my Dad's guitar to learn on, almost 60 years ago. Playing left-handed has never been on my agenda.

This is the story I'm reading over and over again online regarding the question I'm asking..

It's considered common for "lefties" to be coerced into playing right-handed due to lack of availability of left-handed guitars.

 

[Seamus OReally]

Are there left-handed pianos? Saxophones? Violins?

 

[PLX]

Are there left-handed pianos? Saxophones? Violins?

My dad used to have a left-handed box wrench.

Cannot count the amount of times I was sent looking for that thing.

 

[iblive]

My dad used to have a left-handed box wrench.

Cannot count the amount of times I was sent looking for that thing.

LH screw drivers are a must.

 

[PLX]

LH screw drivers are a must.

Plus they're always more expensive than right-handed screwdrivers due to re-tooling elements of the manufacturing process.

 

[Beagle]

This is the story I'm reading over and over again online regarding the question I'm asking..

It's considered common for "lefties" to be coerced into playing right-handed due to lack of availability of left-handed guitars.

I wasn't coerced to play right-handed, I never considered playing left-handed.

When I played cricket I batted left-handed, but could bat right-handed just as well. In those days, changing over mid over got me in to trouble from the umpires more than once, these days it's expected.

My son in law plays left-handed, my daughter is totally left-handed, yet their son is and plays right-handed.

 

[PLX]

I wasn't coerced to play right-handed, I never considered playing left-handed.

When I played cricket I batted left-handed, but could bat right-handed just as well. In those days, changing over mid over got me in to trouble from the umpires more than once, these days it's expected.

My son in law plays left-handed, my daughter is totally left-handed, yet their son is and plays right-handed.

My grandma said the schoolteacher used to smack her hand with a ruler for writing left-handed.

 

[iblive]

My grandma said the schoolteacher used to smack her hand with a ruler for writing left-handed.

Yeah. Some of that went on. Pretty sure my mom was made to be a righty but we’re all pretty sure she should have been a lefty.

 

[iblive]

My oldest kid is very much a lefty. Baseball. Catches and throws left handed. For a while in little league he did try and switch hit. Fairly successful, but ultimately settled on batting left handed. Tennis…. Kid doesn’t have a backhand…. Only a forehand. So yes. He used both hands. Switched so seamlessly I never saw him do it when playing.

Checked with my eldest. He played baseball righty.

When he was but a wee tyke and was learning to use utensils to feed himself he was already showing tendencies to be left handed. We’d put the spoon in his right hand and he’d hit every corner of his face…. Just not his mouth. He’d pick it up with his left hand and nail his mouth every time. So lefty it was for him.

 

[67plexi]

Think Albert King right hand strung guitar played left handed

 

[Beagle]

My grandma said the schoolteacher used to smack her hand with a ruler for writing left-handed.

Oh yeah, one teacher did that to me. He never did it again when my Dad lifted him gently off the floor by his throat.

 

[67plexi]

Oh yeah, one teacher did that to me. He never did it again when my Dad lifted him gently off the floor by his throat.

First grade I was smacked with a ruler left handed they wanted to set me back a grade ended up going to private school the next five years

 

[Beagle]

First grade I was smacked with a ruler left handed they wanted to set me back a grade ended up going to private school the next five years

I can write with both hands, a very useful thing when given 100 lines for bunking off the cross country run.

 

[PLX]

Think Albert King right hand strung guitar played left handed

He prolly stole that idea from Jimi Hendrix.

 

[CoyotesGator]

Naturally right handed but am goofy footed when skateboarding or on slalom.

 

[Don O]

Are there left-handed pianos? Saxophones? Violins?

Apple doesn’t sell a lefty iPhone or iPad. But ya can get a lefty AirPod.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

I’ve entertained the idea…but…I’d wanna start with a beater, and with what I’ve amassed…it sounds like a no fun scenario. Someday, maybe, I’ll bump into a decent and affordable bass to cut my teeth on.

I have tried to practice making chord shapes with my right hand when I flipped my buddy's Epiphone Dot ( ES 335 copy) upside down after I reattached the head stock he broke off it.

Now for some mind warpage.
I am sure that there have been more than 1 guitar player like Albert King. He played lefty but strung righty so that his low E string was down to the floor.
This brings me to 2 bass players I know who do the same thing. The one plays in a band that my high school buddy is the drummer in. The 2nd is the guy who sold me my Epiphone Korina Bass that was signed by Michael Schenker and his band mates and REV, Herrmann the German Rarebill etc.