Wally58

Hi Is there anyone out there on the North Shore of Auckland got a left handed acoustic guitar they wouldn't mind lending me for a couple of weeks - my friend is coming over from the UK for a holiday and it would be good to have a jam with him but he is left handed and I only have right handed guitars.

kimilseung

Just paint one with left handed paint. It works a treat.

dorrick

Don't you just string them the other way round?

Wally58

Hmmm when the brains were being given out you were obviously in the queue

Wally58

Not that easy due to width of strings going through slots on the way to the head of the guitar

scrubbedexpat094

By George, it's you , Amy & squirrel

Lorna at Vicenza

If you have more than one guitar, how expensive would it be to get one professionally re-stringed?

I recently had one done in Italy and to my surprise it only cost me about 5 quid in English terms.

sheene

You would need a new nut, not just re-stringing, otherwise the strings are upside down!

S Folinsky

Jimi Hendrix was left handed and played right-handed guitars.

Lorna at Vicenza

Have I been fobbed off with a cheap but not viable option then?

Not left handed myself but son is.

sheene

Sit down with your guitar - left hand on the fretboard - thick e-string is at the top, thin e-string at the bottom. Now, turn the guitar through 180 degrees so your right hand is on the fretboard - the strings are now upside down! The nut at the top of the fretboard has different width slots to accommodate the different width of strings - this would need to be replaced.

sheene

So did the guy from 'the beat' - Ok, if you learned that way, impossible if you always had a 'proper' left handed guitar.

Lorna at Vicenza

I kind of knew that but they made me feel as if a left hander would use the strings that way ... and anybody else I spoke to here - including a music teacher - made it sound as if it was normal. I'm lost now.

Even having said that ........ went to daughter's (she's a right hander starting on the clarinet) PTA meetings with all the teachers. Got to the music one and the conversation went like this:

Teacher_ she's doing very well and concentrates. I have no problems nor objections.

Me - Well that's good because the poor kid is doing it all alone. You are teaching the notes as DO RE MI FA SOL etc. and I can't help her as I learnt them in England as F A C E G B D etc with sharps and flats etc.

Teacher - oh we have sharps and flats and solfeggio etc as well, but if you could teach her your British way that would actually be brilliant. I don't know why the middle school wants the notes in words and it's such a bad habit. Nobody outside of middle school uses this system. If your daughter were to join the band she'd be learning F and B and C.


It was was one of those WTF situations. If nobody uses that system outside of middle school - why is it still in place?????

sheene

The strange smell you keep wondering about, that keeps wafting in your direction - that is the bullshit.

Lorna at Vicenza

So why are they teaching DO RE Mi when we all learnt C and B and F? (or whatever)

Is it because the notes are supposed to sound like the sound of music or something?