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Old 03-28-2017, 11:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Post your left-handed guitarists. This includes bassists as well. These people are anomalies and deserve some credit. (Videos of left-handed players playing preferred but not required.

The obvious post

Jimi Hendrix

The not-so-obvious post

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Old 03-28-2017, 11:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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How about a left-handed drummer, Rod Morganstein of the Dixie Dregs (and also an abysmal unnamed hair-metal band that pays the bills)

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Old 03-29-2017, 07:00 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Here's two upside-down lefty's;

Larry Williams;



Dick Dale;


As a lefty myself I started out like this on my dads acoustic when I was a kid and rarely play upside down now but dam how these guys have mastered it, guess they were sick of only seeing right handed bass and guitar models

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^ Dick Dale was the first one I thought of. I've seen him 6 times over the past 23 years and he always puts on a great show. He likes those strings heavy and those amps turned up!

I've also seen Doyle Bramhall II a couple of times. Like Dick Dale, he plays the guitar with the strings upside-down and also like Dick Dale, he likes those amps turned up LOUD!...



And I can't forget the late, great, Elizabeth Cotten. Like Dick Dale and Doyle Bramhall II, she also played with the strings upside-down...

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Nice, I love Cotton's stuff, forgot she did it upside down.

@Paul I would say drums are more ambidextrous than stringed instruments since you can just move the placement of the drums according to what you need.
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Old 03-29-2017, 10:42 AM   #6 (permalink)
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The coolest King played upside down too:

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Old 03-29-2017, 12:24 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Robert Fripp ist left-handed but plays a standard guitar.
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