Charging more for left handed models.

[pkstone]

He means that your dominant hand keeps the time, while the other hits the offbeats. I thought that was rather obvious.

I'm trying to suggest that the dominant hand wants to be in charge and driving the rhythm, and this explains not only why string instruments settled on a right handed-pluck/strum/bow design, but also why some (most?) left-handers prefer to pick/strum/bow with their left hand.

It would also explain why some (most?) left-handed drummers (including conga drummers, apparently) prefer a reversed set up.

I'm categorically NOT saying that the other hand does nothing. That's just a strawman.

 

[spaz21387]

My guitarist is a lefty... He takes a right handed guitar and tunes it drop d and simply flips it upside down and plays it... No messing with the nut or any of that. He just strums up by the neck to avoid the knobs... or he plays his custom flying v with a lefty body and a right handed neck upside down.

 

[pkstone]

My guitarist is a lefty... He takes a right handed guitar and tunes it drop d and simply flips it upside down and plays it... No messing with the nut or any of that. He just strums up by the neck to avoid the knobs... or he plays his custom flying v with a lefty body and a right handed neck upside down.

Jimi Hendrix is known to have been able to do that flip-only thing, though he preferred to reverse the strings bottom to top.

Dick Dale learned and always played that way (even after finally getting a lefty guitar, he strung his lefties "upside down").

Macca tried playing right-handed, but switched when he saw the lefty Slim Whitman playing an upside-down righty.

What all these lefties have in common, and went through a great deal of trouble to achieve, is dominant-hand picking.

I'm wondering if Dick Dale would have been able to do that hyper-speed double-picking if he had learned guitar right-handed.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Jimmy Haslip

 

[amimbari]

What all these lefties have in common, and went through a great deal of trouble to achieve, is dominant-hand picking.

I play inverted strings on my leftys or just flip a righty as well. I never thought it was a challenge though, just more logical in my mind. Thanks to TB and other forums, I found quite a bunch of inverted players.

 

[velalv]

I'm trying to suggest that the dominant hand wants to be in charge and driving the rhythm, and this explains not only why string instruments settled on a right handed-pluck/strum/bow design, but also why some (most?) left-handers prefer to pick/strum/bow with their left hand.

It would also explain why some (most?) left-handed drummers (including conga drummers, apparently) prefer a reversed set up.

I'm categorically NOT saying that the other hand does nothing. That's just a strawman.

I think this theory explains my case. After two months in I read Dave Hodge's bass for dummies. He is lefty as well. He suggested trying to see what hand you clapped with for the same reason.

I clap and keep time using my left hand. Another lefty who plays righty at my church meets his hands in the middle or clap mainly with your right hand, Hodge argued that if you do that, you could get away playing righty and should think about doing so.

 

[Clef_de_fa]

There is also Jeff Schmidt, he won some competition of solo bass player. He has a style that only a upside-down tuning can acheive.

 

[coyote1]

He means that your dominant hand keeps the time, while the other hits the offbeats. I thought that was rather obvious.

Being lefty, I play drums that way. But as soon as I started sitting in with others I grasped that my life would be a heckuva lot easier if I learned to play righty, or at least be able to play on a righty set without moving stuff around. And I've done that.

Handedness is not an immutable condition if approached properly in one's youth. You don't want to prohibit lefties from being lefty, but you do want to encourage them to "explore the other side" a bit. I've learned to swing a bat and a golf club righty as well as lefty. In tennis or paddle/racquetball, I tend to switch hands rather than use a backhand.... although I can also do a backhand with either hand.