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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/3/#post-241001</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 02:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Born leftyWas hit at school and made to write right handed 


Sounds like me except auntie Francis, may kindergarden teacher never hit me. I also eat right handed. My brother is pure left ha...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Born lefty<br><br>Was hit at school and made to write right handed 


Sounds like me except auntie Francis, may kindergarden teacher never hit me. I also eat right handed. My brother is pure left hander all the way. We had moved and he never had auntie Francis teach him. If he didn't start on violin I am sure he would have been a left handed bass player.<br><br>Growing up I bat, threw, shot, and took jump shots left handed. Playing in the post, around the hoop, bowling, playing ping pong with either hand. Dined and wrote right handed.<br><br>When I picked up a guitar left did feel more natural but not so much that I played right handed knowing finding a guitar and instruction would be easier.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/3/#post-240784</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 21:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I write left-handed in spite of the grade school nuns and a mean pre-school teacher. I thought my parents were going to kill her when they found out she was grabbing the pencil from my left ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I write left-handed in spite of the grade school nuns and a mean pre-school teacher. I thought my parents were going to kill her when they found out she was grabbing the pencil from my left hand and putting it in my right hand. She would then slap my left hand. :shock: <br>Jim-Bone

Whoa, Nellie! That's literally old school...<br>I thought that sort of thing only happened generations ago. :shock:]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>boxboy</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/3/#post-240619</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 01:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Something&#039;s just occured to me - aren&#039;t all guitarists ambidextrous, in a way? I&#039;m right handed - but it seems to me my left hand bears the brunt of the burden and does most of the work. Ask...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Something's just occured to me - aren't all guitarists ambidextrous, in a way? I'm right handed - but it seems to me my left hand bears the brunt of the burden and does most of the work. Ask yourself this - which hand's more likely to get tired, to get cramp, to ache - your strumming hand or your fetting hand?

I think that's only in more modern playing (i.e. the last few hundred years).  The guitar (or actually it's ancestor before the invention of the guitar) originally was an accompaniment / chordal instrument only and the left hand work wasn't as involved as it is today.  So the choice of which hands did which job made it more suited to a rightie.  At least that's what I was told by a college music teacher from whom I took an adult ed group guitar class.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Hyperborea</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/3/#post-240614</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 01:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Born Left handedI play righty but wonder if I had learned to play lefty would things have been easier?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Born Left handed<br><br>I play righty but wonder if I had learned to play lefty would things have been easier?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240566</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Something&#039;s just occured to me - aren&#039;t all guitarists ambidextrous, in a way? I&#039;m right handed - but it seems to me my left hand bears the brunt of the burden and does most of the work. Ask...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Something's just occured to me - aren't all guitarists ambidextrous, in a way? I'm right handed - but it seems to me my left hand bears the brunt of the burden and does most of the work. Ask yourself this - which hand's more likely to get tired, to get cramp, to ache - your strumming hand or your fetting hand?<br><br> :D  :D  :D <br><br>Vic]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Vic Lewis VL</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240557</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Did you know that Hendrix could play the guitar right handed, or he could play it left handed with the strings upside down(a la Albert King)...or right handed with the strings upside down? A...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Did you know that Hendrix could play the guitar right handed, or he could play it left handed with the strings upside down(a la Albert King)...or right handed with the strings upside down? Amazing. <br><br>But yea, I play right handed, and do everything right handed. My left arm is almost non responsive, lol.<br> <br>  NO, i didnt know that about Hendrix! just one more reason to be in awe of the man. and as far as your left arm being non responsive, thats kind of what i was getting at in my last post. i never had that issue with my right hand, considering i use it for some complicated things. like i said, i guess as much as i like to complain about my slow progress, there are things that have helped that i didnt realize until this thread!]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>GuitarHack</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240555</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[i consider myself a lefty. i play guitar left-handed, play sports as a lefty, but i write with my right hand.  i take a certain amount of pride in my left handed guitar playing. i dont know ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[i consider myself a lefty. i play guitar left-handed, play sports as a lefty, but i write with my right hand. <br> i take a certain amount of pride in my left handed guitar playing. i dont know why. maybe its because some of my favorite players and songwriters are lefty...hendrix, iommi, cobain. though to be honest, had i known when i started playing how difficult it is finding lefty guitars i wouldve started off as a righty.
Did you know that Hendrix could play the guitar right handed, or he could play it left handed with the strings upside down(a la Albert King)...or right handed with the strings upside down? Amazing.<br><br>But yea, I play right handed, and do everything right handed. My left arm is almost non responsive, lol.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Kevin72790</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240553</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hyper, i think thats a pretty good question for people in your situation (lefties who play guitar right-handed). ive never really considered that. as i said, im lefty as far as most &#039;power&#039; ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hyper, i think thats a pretty good question for people in your situation (lefties who play guitar right-handed). ive never really considered that. as i said, im lefty as far as most 'power' things are considered - sports (throwing), guitar (strumming). but i use my right hand where fine motor skills are needed (writing, holding a fork or spoon). i think this actually benefits my guitar playing in the sense that i strum with the power hand but fret with the hand thats already accustomed to those intricate things, which may have made my chord forming easier.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>GuitarHack</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240213</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;m a lefty too and do just about everything left handed except I play the guitar right handed.  Does any other lefty feel that their strumming / picking ability lags behind their fretting a...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm a lefty too and do just about everything left handed except I play the guitar right handed.  Does any other lefty feel that their strumming / picking ability lags behind their fretting ability?  Do you have anything you do to overcome that?  (any exercises or drills)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Hyperborea</dc:creator>
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                        <title>RE: Southpaws register here ...</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/southpaws-register-here/paged/2/#post-240201</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[i&#039;m a righty, but i&#039;m posting because i&#039;ve never seen a game of cricket, and i&#039;m a major sports fan, could some one explain the game to me ?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[i'm a righty, but i'm posting because i've never seen a game of cricket, and i'm a major sports fan, could some one explain the game to me ?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>rocker</dc:creator>
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