Macca playing a Guild

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This is in my Beatles 100 Greatest Songs that Rolling Stone did a few years back.
 

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Looks like a 'staged' shot - the strings are set up for a right -hander.
Macca may well be a lefty but he strings it as such.

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I can't find a photo right now, but Paul would occasionally grab a guitar and play it "upside down". It's something that other lefties I have seen do once in a while, since the vast majority of guitars they might grab are strung righty. This photo looks like he just grabbed the guitar and played it a bit. He's not Jimi, but Hendrix could supposedly play ambidextrously also.

I knew a guy once who played with the low E on the bottom all the time. That's the way he learned because he used to borrow his older brother's guitar. Always looked weird, but he could play!

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Looks like a 'staged' shot - the strings are set up for a right -hander.
Macca may well be a lefty but he strings it as such.

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Funny you should chime in, a very old thread ID's the photo as coming from the Beatles '64 Australian tour, but don't know if that's accurate.
In retrospect I'm somewhat surprised a Guild made it to Australia at that early date, if true, but perhaps it belonged to some other group on tour?
Or perhaps they had better international distribution than I ever realized at that time?
I don't think anybody ever thought it was actually his, and suspect it was borrowed and "staged" as you mention, but IIRC he could pick up a righty and play quite well with it flipped over, on occasions when he was borrowing somebody's guitar.
"Leftys" seem to have a knack for that, like Hendrix.
Edit: Ahhh, I see Walrus confirms that memory.
:smile:
(Oh, by the way absolutely Jimi was ambidextrous on guitar. I think the ease of swapping for lefties must stem from the localization of pattern recognition in what for leftys is the dominant right hemisphere. There may be a related coordination ability on that side too, never thought to look into that one)
 
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Funny you should chime in, a very old thread ID's the photo as coming from the Beatles '64 Australian tour, but don't know if that's accurate.
In retrospect I'm somewhat surprised a Guild made it to Australia at that early date, if true, but perhaps it belonged to some other group on tour?
Or perhaps they had better international distribution than I ever realized at that time?
I don't think anybody ever thought it was actually his, and suspect it was borrowed and "staged" as you mention, but IIRC he could pick up a righty and play quite well with it flipped over, on occasions when he was borrowing somebody's guitar.
"Leftys" seem to have a knack for that, like Hendrix.
Edit: Ahhh, I see Walrus confirms that memory.
:smile:
(Oh, by the way absolutely Jimi was ambidextrous on guitar. I think the ease of swapping for lefties must stem from the localization of pattern recognition in what for leftys is the dominant right hemisphere. There may be a related coordination ability on that side too, never thought to look into that one)

I do know George Harrison was given a Maton solid body guitar that he also used on that 1964 tour here in Australia.

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But the real strange one is Elvis playing a Maton jumbo acoustic in the 1957 movie 'Jailhouse Rock'!

How did he get that in USA in the early 60's?
I live in Australia and I've never seen that model!

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As you may have guessed the guitar actually belonged to his guitarist Scotty Moore.
It's a 1950's Maton HG100.
 
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I'm a natural lefty who plays righty. Sad to say my right hand is pretty useless at fretting, though my left hand can do the strumming & picking stuff quite well. :)

-Dave-
 
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