Dispelling The Myths About Left Handed Guitar And Left Handed Guitarists
There are a few things left handed and right handed guitarists need to get straight in their heads about the subject of left handed guitars and left handed guitarists.
There are various “ideas” floating around about this subject, which not surprisingly have been generated by ignorant right handed guitarists, or money-only motivated sales staff at musical [...]
Left handed guitars for left handed Rock Chicks
In my time, when Punk Rock music was just coming to an end and “New Wave” music was emerging a “part-time” Punk Rocker was called a “Sunday Punk.” Anyone, for that matter who was a “pretend” something was a “Sunday” something. I suppose that term was from my folks era, so that would have been, [...]
Right handed people should learn to play guitar left handed
20th Century dictionaries define a guitar as “a stringed instrument played by strumming.”
Today, the guitar can no longer be defined in this way, as the way of playing guitar has changed dramatically. From about the middle of the 20th Century “playing guitar” has evolved tremendously and has risen to vistas totally unimaginable to guitar players before [...]
Where Do You Get A Left Handed Les Paul Style Guitar Now That Gibson Has Stopped Making Left Handed Guitars?
The Les Paul model electric guitar is a legend. It is the second most popular and most recognizable shaped guitar in the world, second only to the Stratocaster shape by Fender.
The Les Paul guitar was designed by Ted McCarty, the President of Gibson Guitars in the early 1950’s with contributions (depending on whose side of the story you [...]
Why Left Handed Guitars?
We all know that there are less left handed people than right handed people in the world. Analysts calculate that 1 in 10 human beings are left-handed. This means the total amount of left handers living in the world is over 600 million. According to Scientific estimates, there will be a billion left-handed people living [...]
Left Hand Guitarists and Left Handed Guitars
Left Hand guitar players the world over have always had a problem with availability of left handed guitars.
Many left handed people newly learning to play guitar end up learning to play right handed out of frustration. Many experienced left handed guitarists have simply become apathetic and given up looking for that which is abundant [...]