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Question:
Well, I just got a Baby Taylor (standard woods, spruce/sapele) from a friend. Though I like it I find the 3/4 scale a bit too small but I thought that it has is just the right size for the 10 year old daughter of my girl friend, who might like to learn to play guitar. Unfortunately the little girl is left handed and the guitar is a standard right hand model. What is the best option in this scenario? Should - the girl learn to play with her right hand? - I or a luthier try to convert the guitar into a left hand model by changing bridge and saddle? - I get genuine a lefthand model for her?
Answer:
As a lefty who plays right-handed, I would encourage your friend's daughter to do the same. When I had my first guitar lesson, some 50+ years ago, the question of a left-handed guitar never even came up; my teacher expected that everyone would play right-handed. Since I was a complete beginner, I didn't have any prior left-handed guitar techniques to unlearn, and, if anything, I found the better dexterity and added strength of my left hand advantageous for fretting my cheap guitar's high action. As others have said, playing right-handed certainly increases the number of choices available when choosing a guitar.
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Comment #1 (Posted by Louhi
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Hi, Let the guitar in the little girl's hands and just observe what she's doing with. If she is hesitating and finally place the guitar as a right handed, You'll have nothing to do. If she's touching spontaneously the guitar as a left handed one should (picking with left hand, freting with right), well consider to adjust the guitar by a professional for her (or by yourself if you can do it). Noone minority should act as the majority does to be conform. And any prof shouldn't oblige a left handed pupil to play guitar as right handed ones do. Thanks God, Paul MacCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and so famous ones, and so unknown ones, didn't have a prof who expected them to play as right handed ones do. kindly Louhi