Can someone clarify this for me?

[Tupac]

I heard it has something to do with your dominant eye. My dominant one is my left.

 

[DazzyPig]

I always advise new kids who are lefties to learn righty. You're not gonna be able to get 'into it' for a while anyway, the learning curve is still gonna be tough, so why make your instrument more expensive (and more difficult to find) further down the line just 'cos you can...

 

[Jhengsman]

Ok, this might be a rant but it's one of my pet peeves.

have you ever seen a left handed piano?
have you ever seen a left handed violin?
have you ever seen a left handed cello?
have you ever seen a left handed clarinet?
have you ever seen a left handed double bass? (some of you may have heard of this one)
have you ever seen a left handed dulcimer?
have you ever seen a left handed kazoo?
have you ever seen a left handed HAT?!

Nope...but somebody in the very recent history decided that there should be left handed guitars that cost 15% more...

No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Don't think I've ever seen a dulcimer.
Yes.
N/A.

Not recent history but the relative ease of manufacturing makes it inevitable since we don't live in a society which forces its left handers to conform. Well I was forced to eat and write right handed but that is another discussion

For the record I choose to try to play guitars right handed at the start and stayed with it.

 

[Orangeclawhammr]

What I totally can not understand is playing a left-handed bass/guitar strung upside-down. I've seen three guitarists do this. Two were in the same band.

 

[JimmyM]

I can understand it all. Why? Because they do it, and many of them make good music when they do.

 

[Jhengsman]

What I totally can not understand is playing a left-handed bass/guitar strung upside-down. I've seen three guitarists do this. Two were in the same band.

While I learned to play right handed my guitar player borrowed a right handed person's guitar and played left handed

When the left hander starts playing someone else's guitar which he borrowed his only option is just to flip it if he plays left handed. His style may be set in stone before he acquires a purpose built left handed instrument with the strings in the same relative position as a standard tuned guitar.

 

[Groove Doctor]

Ever tried bowing 16th notes on a violin, complex flamenco picking/strumming patterns, or fast-picking banjo? Right hand/arm dexterity is SOOO much harder than left on these instruments.

 

[Huge]

I read somewhere that the right handed guitar was actually developed by a lefty as a left handed guitar, fretting with the dominant hand. However, I don't know if that's true or not.

 

[u84six]

I'm also a lefty who plays righty. I don't even know why it worked out this way, but it just felt natural to me. I also throw and bat righty, but most everything else I do lefty.

Good question but I don't think there's answer. It's all about the individual's brain and not so much the action.

 

[SquierJazz72]

I had never heard of left handed instruments

This was me too, when I started. My whole family, including the other musicians, are all right handed. I was exposed to nothing but right handed instruments and players. I just assumed that's how it was done, and that everyone played that way regardless, so that's how I learned when my time came.

 

[Clef_de_fa]

I'm a lefty that play lefty and I tried many time to play righty.

What I discovered is that rythm is way easier to do with your dominant hand. Since you don't have to watch your rythm hand you can concentrate on your fretting hand.

I met a few lefty who played righty who had more problems with rythm than fretting ... and in music the rythm is always trickier than fretting, especially on advanced music like some Victor Wooten.

 

[jsbarber]

Ok, this might be a rant but it's one of my pet peeves.

have you ever seen a left handed piano?

Yes. Keyboard actually. Check out Joe (keyboard in the middle).



Bass guitarist is pretty good too... Wonder who that dude was