The guitar is one of the most common musical instrument on the planet. Thanks to a fairly wide range and the relative simplicity of the game it has become popular in a variety of styles of music – from flamenco to black metal. Produced dozens of varieties of guitars. Many popular rock musicians have their own instruments issued by well-known manufacturers especially for them.

As played left-handed guitar before?



Many famous guitarists are left – handed: for example, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain.
The abundance of left-handers among musicians is not surprising, because the left hand controls the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for creativity and imagination.


First left-hander played on an ordinary guitar, no distinction was. Just had to put the strings in reverse order, so you can easily take any chord in the mirror. Classic guitars of the "dreadnought" does not have a cutout for ease of play, their body is mirror symmetrical, so no problems. With the advent of Jumbo guitars, and electric guitars, whose casing is asymmetric relative to the longitudinal axis, the situation has changed.

Features of left-handed guitars



Now the market offers a lot of guitars for people owning better with the left hand. In fact, the left-handed guitar is a mirror image of a normal guitar. The belt clip socket for a cord, the machine to tension the string, the notch for the hand, and often pick stand on the other side, back to the way they are located on a conventional guitar. Exactly the same make and bass guitar. Produced "left-handed" guitars are much less than traditional, as left-handers compared to right-handers a little bit.

Not all lefties buy a "left-handed" tools. So, Hendrix all my life I played on a normal Stratocaster, designed for the right handed, just pull the strings in reverse order. However, he could play on the strings, stretched beneath the right-hander reiterated his contemporaries. On the outs so the strings were playing and bluesman albert king.
As a child, albert king was trying to retrain for a righty. Nothing came of it, but there was the original style of play (king took the usual right-handed guitar, not pulling the strings, and played on it with the left hand).


By the way, the web is no problem to find a free lesson guitar specifically for people with a leading left hand.