Monday, August 17, 2009

It is really hard being a left handed 12 string guitar player as I cannot find anyone to jam with. Everyone else either plays 6 string or is right handed. I can play really really fast and most right handed players cannot keep up with me. I have met a couple of left handed and they are just as good, probably better than me. Mind you, I have only been playing left handed 12 string guitar for 5 years or so. Before that I played 6 string right handed

Left handed 12 string guitar specialists are so hard to find. Not only rare but expensive too. I had my first experience when mine needed repairing and what got me was that the right handed one had exactly the same thing wrong with it a few weeks earlier and cost nearly twice as much to get fixed.

It seems that just because it was a left handed 12 string guitar the guy thought he would rob me. Well, guess what, he did, but he never will again as I have found another guy who charges the same amount of both right and left handed guitar repairs

Any one who can play a left handed 12 string guitar must be gifted. I really struggled when I first tried, even though I am left handed naturally as well as right handed. I am not truly ambidextrous even though I wish I was. I first began playing left handed 12 string guitar when I was about 16 or 17 years old and now I am finding I just can't stop. I do have a problem, though, when it comes to finding a jamming partner.

Seems like we are a rare breed

my left handed 12 string Guitar Blog

I would not have anything else now except a left handed 12 string guitar, because it is the only model of guitar I can get the sounds that I want out of. I used to play both right and left handed but now left handed just seems so natural. The sound is unique and my fingers just flow off the strings so effortlessly.

My posture is less awkward than right handed and it leaves my right hand free to tweak and tune if need be

Update: looks like I found a fellow lover of the instrument here