Question for lefties

[RBSinTo]

I mean the scissors were turned upside down

lungimsam,
Wait a sec.
So........if people in the Southern Hemisphere turn their scissors upside down, that 's like a double negative, and they won't have any problems cutting stuff?
And what does this mean for a person playing a right-handed guitar left-handed while standing on their head in New Zealand?
Oy!
RBSinTo

 

[JohnW63]

"And went on to talk about why I'd probably never be able to Travis pick or play Delta and why some teachers deserve the firing squad."

You know, I don't have trouble with that. I was taught how to do simple finger picking first and then holding a pick came after I stopped those early lessons. I don't know if that made the difference. Really fast strumming is where my right hand lets me down. I guess it's fine motor skills vs larger muscle skills.

The other place my right had lets me down BIG time is it's the first skill to leave the room if I have to play in front of a group. I always need to play along with people first to get the adrenaline to subside then I can find the strings are back where I think they are. I don't know about the rest of you right handers and what skill gets flaky under stress, but man do I wish I could calm that hand down.

 

[Default]

No lefties bit at $200.

 

[RBSinTo]

No lefties bit at $200.

Default,
Forgive me, but if it was mine, and seemingly no one was willing to pay even just $200.00 for it, I'd find a school music programme, or one for disadvantaged kids and donate it.
I fixed a bunch of acoustics a few years ago, and didn't bother to try and sell them, but just gave them to such a programme.
RBSinTo

 

[Default]

That ( and all the other incredibly obvious solutions) were tried. Thanks for that. I'll hang on to it until an owner shows up. It doesn't eat much. You'd be surprised how many lefties don't play left-handed.

 

[RBSinTo]

That ( and all the other incredibly obvious solutions) were tried. Thanks for that. I'll hang on to it until an owner shows up. It doesn't eat much. You'd be surprised how many lefties don't play left-handed.

Default,
No I wouldn't, because I'm one of them.
RBSinTo

 

[Default]

A small segment of a small segment. Anecdotally, I know three southpaws that play lefthanded. I know more than that who play righthanded, because it was easier to learn to play that way. Cheaper too. As for "programmes", they don't want to warehouse stuff. So if, they do not have an immediate need, they don't want it. I was able to donate a drum kit through a friend of a friend, but there was someone who could use it.
According to Fender, 07% of the population is at least a beginner guitarist. Some one who at least picked up a guitar and tried to learn how to play it.
So, 07% of the population. Lefties are 10% of the population. Lefties who play standard guitars are, say, 70% of the population. So- guitar players who are starting out are fewer in number than the people who play. We skew older, so we have our own gear.
So. let's be kind and say 60% have no need.
40% of 30% of 10% of 7%, 90% who give up. So, with a population of 336M, you have 23.5M According to Fender, 90% of that 7% quit in the first year. 2,352,000 stick with it.. Lefties clock in at 233,520. Lefties who don't play right handed are (possibly), 70,056. of those, 42,033 *might* need a guitar. Demand was up during the recent health wonkiness, but that seems to be tailing off.


Yeah, there might be two or three that need a left-handed beginner guitar in PA, but I'm not going to hunt them down with bloodhounds.
Might be errors in the math, but math is math.

 

[JohnW63]

Remind me to ask you later, if my son decides he wants to learn to play. By default , Default, my kid puts every stringed instrument in the left handed orientation. He does see me doing that, but he may be more lefty than me.