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bbriant
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bbriant
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05/02/2019 11:15 am

Hi Everyone

I am a young oldy 69yrs going on 70. I am left handed started to learn in the late 1960s with right handed friends guitars, I could not find a left handed guitar I was able to afford. so I brought a right handed jumbo acoustic a turned the strings around.

I was also tone deaf at that time, was told in school by my music teacher not to sing. took me four years to learn how to tune with a set of pitch pipes.

My fretting hand pinky is stuck in a perminant L shape and my other fingers on both hands are not working great.

Now there is so many good left handed guitars around and ways of learning that about seven months ago decided to give it another go, there are some chords I will never be able to play but i find another shape to use.

I sing maybe out of key and play what i can and really enjoy myself.

So grab a guitar and go for it.

Barry