The famous left handed guitarist
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j par
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Probably left handed and forced to write right handed in grade school and the reason he signs autographs with his right...
Treblig
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My daughter had a hard time in school because there was no one there that could teach her how to write left handed, she just couldn't do it with her right hand (wasn't natural). My wife is left handed so she showed my daughter how to write at home.
j par
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how much of an option do you think Jimmy got back in the fifties when he was in grade school?...
My impact wrench is ambidextrous
Yes he restrung the right handed guitar as he is playing it left handed. Base string on top.
Opposite of the way the right hand guitars are strung, as in the right hand guitar pictured below.
pishta
I know I'm right....
Dick Dale said he learned to play a flipped righty as a lefty. I saw a vid but it was a lefty so I dont know if he changed his style or what.
They tried that with me in the first grade. I was left handed to begin with. The teacher would pop my hand with a ruler when she saw me writing with my left hand. I never complied. Then, over the summer of 1971, my first cousin flipped me in the backyard. I landed squarely on a root.......with my RIGHT collarbone. It broke of course. So that was that. They had to let me be left handed then. lol
I had always known Hendrix was right handed......which to me makes his talent......no his GIFT with the guitar even more pronounced. Here's a right handed guy, who takes a right handed guitar, flips it upside down leaving it strung right handed and plays probably better than anyone ever has or ever will. I would love to have seen his transformation had he lived.
@RustyRatRod
I got the same treatment. Forced to write right handed. I just went with it.
Eat with a fork left most of the time. Basketball both sides, prefer right. Hockey left, golf right or left, bat left, play first base left all other positions right... never mattered. placekick the bejesus out of a football left, more accurate right... same with penalty shot in soccer, took them right for precision over power.
Jimi was flat talented!
I got the same treatment. Forced to write right handed. I just went with it.
Eat with a fork left most of the time. Basketball both sides, prefer right. Hockey left, golf right or left, bat left, play first base left all other positions right... never mattered. placekick the bejesus out of a football left, more accurate right... same with penalty shot in soccer, took them right for precision over power.
Jimi was flat talented!
I played church league softball. I could bat either way, very successfully. I always had a knack for dropping the ball right where somebody WASN'T. Daddy always said he felt like because I had only one eye, somehow it helped my straight line acuity. I think he was on to something. I couldn't field worth a **** though, because at that time, I had little to no depth perception. So they put me in the catcher position and I kicked ***. Daddy loved baseball and was an avid fan.....so he kept meticulous records of my softball games. I kept a batting average of over 400 all the time. I was never a power hitter, but I could and did switch hit all the time and boy did it ever piss the pitcher off. lol I could always hit just as good both ways. They hated me. I'm ambidextrous about almost everything, but here's a really weird one. Get this. When I eat steak for example, I cut with my left, hold the steak with my right with the fork. Then, when I get the piece cut, I swap hands and eat with the left with the fork. I CANNOT for the life of me cut with the knife in my right hand. AIN'T happenin. Strange, huh?
I had a cousin that was left hand but played right hand. No flipping the guitar or re-string. The dude was gifted for sure.
It's cool to see that so many of us don't know which hand to use for a variety of things. I write right; eat, shave, brush my teeth, hold a phone left; throw right; bat left...it's about 50/50. I can do almost any of those things (except write) both handed, but I prefer a certain hand for everything.
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Have tried picking up the guitar several times over the years, i cant coordinate. Being a lefty i should consider re-stringing. May make it easier.
Playing ball as a kid, catch ball,drop glove and throw with left hand. Was not easy.
Playing ball as a kid, catch ball,drop glove and throw with left hand. Was not easy.
Treblig
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I played catcher for my cousin who was a pitcher for an A Level Team, I had never played catcher before for a semi-pro. I just happened to go by his house one day and he needed to practice his pitching..........It was scary!! After just a few really hot curve balls I had to quit. I have no idea how you could catch having only one eye because it was almost impossible to catch for my cousin with two good eyes!! His knuckle ball almost killed me.
Dfr360cuda
Diagnosis... Plum Crazy.
In school... Desks were right handed
Power tools, right handed
Rifles, right handed
Infielders but for first base, right handed.
Banging gears, right handed
Power tools, right handed
Rifles, right handed
Infielders but for first base, right handed.
Banging gears, right handed
Dfr360cuda
Diagnosis... Plum Crazy.
The old MAC impacts weren't for decades. That darned rib was very uncomfortable for the left handers. The later models had ribs on both sides then a handle redesign lost both. What were they thinking? LOL
pishta
I know I'm right....
When I was in, you couldn't become a Marine sniper shooting as a lefty as we used modded bolt action Remington 700's (M40A1) and all the training was right eye, right hand...We had guys on the M-16 range shooting left and the hot brass would go right down their shirts. "Button up lefties!" before we approached the firing line. Anyone make a lefty bolt action rifle?
512Stroker
We are all here because we are not all there.
I drive on the right side of the road, well most of the time, when I not passing.
512Stroker
We are all here because we are not all there.
Most of the modern day production rifles come right or left hand.
Even most custom actions can be ordered left handed.
and don't forget scissors and notebooks
Treblig
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Why is the toilet flusher thingy on the left side????????????
Because you shake hands with your right?
Great explanation from Ringo about being left handed
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