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What hand do you write with and play guitar
Right handed and play guitar right handed 50%  50%  [ 18 ]
Left handed and play guitar right handed 22%  22%  [ 8 ]
Left handed and play guitar right handed 22%  22%  [ 8 ]
Right handed and play guitar left handed 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Left handed and play guitar left handed 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
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Post subject: What hand do you write with and play guitar ?
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:07 pm
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Thought it would be interesting to know, I'm left handed but play guitar right handed.

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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:23 pm
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Here are the things I do as a lefty:

Eat
Drink from a glass
Write and draw
Cut with an xacto knife
Play shuffleboard and air hockey
Throw and catch a baseball
Throw a football, darts, paper airplanes and horseshoes

Here are the things I do as though I were right-handed:

Play guitar*
Play golf*
Bowl*
Cut with scissors*
Drink from a mug
Play tennis
Hit a baseball
Throw a frisbee

I consider myself left-handed, but maybe I'm just confused. :shock:

* conscious decisions based on availability of equipment

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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:23 pm
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Ambidextrous and play right handed. 8)


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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:38 pm
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Right handed / right handed for me. Found out while camping that my son is right handed but can only use an axe left handed. And I do mean an axe (for cutting firewood). :)


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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:25 pm
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Right handed and right handed. Funny thing is that when I boxed my left hook was my big punch that most guys thought I was a south paw.


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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:08 am
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Wow didn't know there were that many like me out there. Left handed but play right handed... Now I don't feel so alone... :lol:

Good question Stephen... :wink:


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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:31 am
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Right handed and right handed but for some reason, people think I'm left handed.
Must be the way my guitar sounds when I play it. :oops:

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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:41 am
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I write right handed, play guitar right handed. Eat left handed, bat left handed, play hockey right handed, golf left handed...

I'm all screwed up.


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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:13 am
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I'm totally left handed EXCEPT for playing the guitar.

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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:59 pm
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+ 1 Martian, play guitar righty but everything else lefty ( except bat when I used to play baseball ) that was determined by what kind of pitcher I was facing.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:35 pm
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I do just about everything left-handed except throwing a frisbee and shooting a basketball.

When I started out playing, I tried to learn right-handed at the advice of the guy who sold me my first guitar. While fretting and bending notes were easier, playing with a pick proved to be extrememly difficult. After a couple years of this I switched over to playing lefty and within a few months was playing better overall than I ever had playing righty.

There seem to be degrees of left-handedness. While some lefties seem to have no trouble learning on a regular guitar, others (like myself) just never seem to be able to get the hang of it.


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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:43 pm
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I'm right handed but my niece (12) is left-handed and happily plays my guitars right-handed.

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:12 am
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I play right handed, but I'm a lefty......But not a natural lefty, see if you can figure that out :wink:

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:14 am
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right handed, righty guitar, most it appears have a degree of ambidextrous as well, me too.

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