left handed guitar!

emsie80

Hi all,

looking for some advice. OH wants to start to learning to play guitar. He is left handed and im wondering whats the best type to buy?

Many thanks;)

Ravelleman

A right-handed guitar. This is the best type.

I say this as a lefty.

emsie80

^^^^

Really???? that makes things a little easier

mattjack

I come from a tribe of left handed people too and one of my left handed sons plays guitar using his right hand.
His teacher said if he needed it he'd restring the guitar allowing him to use his left hand , but said let him try using his right first, this was two years ago.

Count yourself lucky your OH is left handed.:)

emsie80

mattjack wrote: »

I come from a tribe of left handed people too and one of my left handed sons plays guitar using his right hand.
His teacher said if he needed it he'd restring the guitar allowing him to use his left hand , but said let him try using his right first, this was two years ago.

Count yourself lucky your OH is left handed.:)

thanks for advice the knocking elbows at the dinner table is gettin abit old at this stage and if i have to peel another baked spud for him.......:D

Get him to pick up a right handed guitar if he instinctively holds it a certain way thats the one to buy ie if he holds it upside down get a leftie

Banjo

emsie80 wrote: »

thanks for advice the knocking elbows at the dinner table is gettin abit old at this stage and if i have to peel another baked spud for him.......:D

Swap chairs! Then your active elbows are on the outside...

The baked spud thing isn't a lefty thing, it's a lazy thing. See if he blocks punches with his left hand!

Ravelleman

I don't think instinct has anything to do with it. It's about making a conscious decision to play right-handed.

Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages so it's much of a muchness really.

The real benefit is variety. There are many more right-handed guitars out there and they tend to be cheaper than lefty guitars. Also, from a social point of view, if you play righty you can play your friends' guitars as the majority of them will be right-handed, just as everything else is in life!

For me it was the best decision I made as a player.

Ghost Buster

Ever see a left handed piano?

I'm left-handed and the first time I picked up a right handed guitar I held it upside down as it came naturally.

After getting a leftie I was jealous of my right handed friends as they could trade up and change guitars easily.

I was forced in school to write with my right hand for a while and didn't enjoy it so I assumed a left-handed guitar would be the natural way to go

b318isp

My dad teaches guitar and always advocated a right-handed guitar. He says that a left hander will find it easier to learn chords and is physically stronger on that hand too. This makes beginning the guitar easier. My 8 year old, who is left handed, started two weeks ago with my dad, and doesn't seem to be having any problems - his confidence is high!

Additionally, if a person then really gets into guitar, then there is a much greater variety of good guitars out there for them.

martinedwards

Gary Moore & Mark Knopfler.

both lefty.

both play(ed) righty.

if you CAN, then go righty. the market is SOOOO much bigger and therefor cheaper.

-=al=-

jh79 wrote: »

Get him to pick up a right handed guitar if he instinctively holds it a certain way thats the one to buy ie if he holds it upside down get a leftie

That's what I'm at too

I think for some people (me at least) this was the way to go. It felt dangerously unnatural for me to play right handed and I'd never looked back. + I seemed to pick it up a lot faster than most of my friends or whatever at the time starting off

Whatever's natural is best for me, being lefthanded in 2012 is fine really

I'm right handed and play left :pac: And find it fine playing a right handed guitar upside-down at parties or whatever + it's a good excuse if you **** up and mighty impressive if you pull it off!

emsie80

thanks guys for all the replies. I think ill go for the right handed and see how it goes

Cedrus

After many years of wanting to play, but struggling with friends right handed guitars and wondering about my dedication to the amount of work in front of me. I decide to take the plunge and graced LIDL with my lucre today. I got a righty because they are cheaper and because as has been said above, you can play a friends one anytime, but I want to play it lefty although I'm right handed as I cannot lift my left arm to the frets, so I want to strum/pick with my left and get the frets/chords with my right.
It still feels wrong , should I restring it backwards or just get on with it? any other tips?

-=al=-

I can barely even rest a guitar on my lap or attempt to play one right handed, just feels wrong so maybe try flipping it and see if it's any better