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RIGHTIES vs LEFTIES

Are you a Rockin RIGHTY or a Left-out LEFTY ?

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SuperTed

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I suspect this poll will show a disproportionate amount of lefties, seeing as EB caters for the lefty far better than most companies. Here's to my left-handed brothers - in 20% price increased - arms!!
 
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adouglas said:
Context....

Estimates of the proportion of left-handed people in the population range from about 8 percent to about 15 percent.
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I read in Guitarist magazine that the percentage of lefty guitarist's is even lower, around 2-5%, so I can see where the makers are coming from when they say it isn't profitable to make lefties.
 
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I play lefty and it's the only thing in life I don't do right handed.

However thanks to EBMM, Rickenbacker,Fender, DiPinto,Warmoth, Eastwood, Martin,PRS (though not now),Fylde and Gibson (again apparently not now).......I don't feel TOO left out.

I suppose it's a strange concept as the guitar is pretty much the only instrument that entertains the idea of having reversed models.
 
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I'm a lefty when it comes to playing guitar. I also eat and write left-handed.

Most sports (hockey, baseball, golf, tennis) I play right handed. I also shoot (hunting) as a righty. Too bad playing guitar is not one of those things that I can play right handed:eek:
 
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Dizzy said:
Based on the IQ of most lefties I know, I reckon the reason they play left-handed guitars is because it looks right in the mirror ! ;) :D
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I assume this is yet another heavy handed attempt at lefty humour, but wonder if there might be some truth in it- in my case anyway. My earliest "guitar" memories involve a tennis racket at the age of 5-6 and certainly a mirror too.
 
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One thing I'm interested to know is if the leftys think that 'their' instruments look good?

If so, did lefty guitars always look good to you, or was it a gradual acceptance that came about after you discovered that that was what you were going to have to get used to?

How many of you use rightys the other way up? (Haven't seen anyone do this for a while).

I know I'm a luddite old righty, but lefty planks always look a bit ......'wrong?' to me.

No offence. Just sayin'....:D
 
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Don't know if it has anything to do with my IQ, but I certainly empathize, or vicariously enjoy, my rockstar idols as a mirror image of my imagined self, with my own guitar. I've been a lefty in everything in my life accept shooting guns and using scissors. So my rockstar posturing in the mirror is just natural. hahahaahah You can't dis Paul McCartney now can you?
 
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Bungo said:
One thing I'm interested to know is if the leftys think that 'their' instruments look good?

If so, did lefty guitars always look good to you, or was it a gradual acceptance that came about after you discovered that that was what you were going to have to get used to?

How many of you use rightys the other way up? (Haven't seen anyone do this for a while).

I know I'm a luddite old righty, but lefty planks always look a bit ......'wrong?' to me.

No offence. Just sayin'....:D
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No, they're bound to look wrong to you.

Interesting questions.

Some of them (Gibson 335,Rickenbackers and of course acoustics) are pretty symmetrical so there's no great difference except for the controls.
Lefty Strat and Tele types look fine to me too now, as I see far too many of them on stands around here every day and on EBay when trying not to buy any more. I guess I see far more of them than I do righties.

Strangely enough, photos of me playing guitar always look slightly odd to me.

I think my guitars look quite cool, (though obviously I can't post pictures here to invite opinions......especially since some twerp would just photoshop them all backwards!)but I'm not all that visual a person and not a great guitar drooler. As to whether they always looked right to me I'm not sure. I do know that I'm never really interested in looking at a guitar that isn't lefty as it's irrelevant to me.

I haven't used a flipped right since I was 16 and there were no lefties for pocket money prices. The opposite seems to be true, lots of the lefty strats on EBay have been flipped by previous righty owners who imagined it would turn them into Hendrix
 
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Leftybassist said:
Don't know if it has anything to do with my IQ, but I certainly empathize, or vicariously enjoy, my rockstar idols as a mirror image of my imagined self, with my own guitar. I've been a lefty in everything in my life accept shooting guns and using scissors. So my rockstar posturing in the mirror is just natural. hahahaahah You can't dis Paul McCartney now can you?
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Stupidly enough I always wanted to be George Harrison or Hank Marvin.......was never interested in Hendrix or McCartney. Even now I struggle to think of any lefty guitarist I listen to (even Albert King and Otis Rush are in a slightly different category)
 
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andynpeters said:
I'm never really interested in looking at a guitar that isn't lefty as it's irrelevant to me.
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Cheers Andy

That all makes a lot of sense actually, especially the comment above. I know my tastes have changed a lot over the years, and I can easily see that irrelevant righty longings would fade away and be replaced by lefty ones that are ultimately more useful to you!

Interesting.:D
 
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