I'm Left Handed and play Left Handed. I have tried in the past to play Right Handed and it just did not feel right (no pun intended) to me.

My advise is to hand him a guitar and see which way he holds it. Start to teach him that way. If it doesn't work, flip the guitar over.

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

I'm left handed and was given a guitar strung for left handed people. Since everyone I knew was right handed I wasn't learning. The guitar just sat on the wall.

One day I got frustrated by not learning to play and decided to just use my dad's guitar, strung for a right handed player. Within a year I was playing pretty well and bought my first electric guitar. I've never looked back.

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I know there's been enough said already but this is something that I've wondered about all my life. I'm a natural Lefty but was taught Right handed guitar. they told me that left was wrong. So I, like a good little boy went along with the program. I still have the feeling that I'm playing a backassward guitar. Now that my left hand has gone bad on me I'm thinking about taking one of my guitars and giving it the old flip.
----Danny,

I'm left handed.

When I first learned to play guitar, I knew no one that had a left handed guitar for me to try out. As a result, I learned to play guitar right handed, using my friend's guitars. It made no difference to me, because I didn't know the difference, being that I never played guitar before. I learned to play right handed and still do today. I'm glad of that, because now I can pick up just about any guitar (unless I come across a rare left handed one) and play it.

I was also a drummer in bands. When I first took lessons, my drum teacher asked (knowing I was left handed) if I wanted to play left or right handed. He suggested that since I was beginning, to learn to play right handed, in that I could sit down to any set of drums and play. This came in handy during "battle of the bands" competitions, in that they had a drum set already set up on stage (right handed) for the various bands to use (guitar players got to bring and use their own guitars), when band after band came onto the stage.

So my opinion? If it's a beginner who never played before.....learn right handed, because you'll never know the difference. And........it will be easier to find equipment to buy and play. It's a right handed world, you know.

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Good point!

right handed. Mark knopfler is a lefty but plays right handed.

i am left handed and it sucks. teach her left handed and she wont be able to own any gibson es models.