You're right about Hendrix, Gilbert. He played a left-handed (or "reverse to standard" ;-) guitar. I was too fast on that one !
Best wishes, Jean-Marie ================================= == En réponse au message du 12-05-2010, 19:00:40 == > >As far as I know Jean Marie, Hendrix, reversed his strings. like I id when I >played electric jazz guitar. He didn't play on a right hand tuned guitar. >I think the best solution for left handed player is to let build a left hand >lute. However as being a lefty I can play some well sounded blues on a right >handed guitar, because I needed, otherwise I nevr could jam with another >guitarist when I didn't have my good old lefthand build guitar. For a good >lute technique it's mportant to me to play like I am, left handed >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jean-Marie Poirier" <jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr> >To: "Lute" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:41 PM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: The Worshipful Company of Left-Handed Lute Players > > >> And what do you say when someone plays a "standard" instrument the >> left-handed way, like Jimmy Hendrix, Albert King, Doyle Bramhall and a few >> others ? Of course impossible to imagine on the lute, but who knows ? >> >> Best, ;-) >> >> Jean-Marie >> >> ================================= >> >> == En réponse au message du 12-05-2010, 15:37:27 == >> >>> >>>Au contraire, my dear Stuart. I am stereotypically left-handed and play >>>standard instruments. I don't believe there is necessarily anything >>>inherently naturally left-handed about placing the neck of a chordophone >>>in >>>the right hand...or right-handed about placing it in the left. Both your >>>hands are rather busy with relatively complicated and strictly >>>anthropogenic >>>tasks in plucked music. Being so very left-handed, I refuse to refer to >>>the >>>instruments I play as "right-handed" but prefer "standard." Allegedly >>>left-handed instruments I call "reverse to standard." Your vocabulary may >>>differ without shame. >>> >>>Eugene >>> >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On >>>> Behalf Of Stuart Walsh >>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:31 AM >>>> To: simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk >>>> Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >>>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: The Worshipful Company of Left-Handed Lute Players >>>> >>>> simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: >>>> > Sent to the list on behalf of Chris Goodwin, the Secretary of the >>>> > (UK-based) Lute Society: >>>> > >>>> > Dear all >>>> > >>>> > THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LEFT-HANDED LUTE PLAYERS >>>> > >>>> > At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Lute Society the view was >>>> > expressed that not enough is done for left-handed players, especially >>>> > beginners or prospective players; perhaps The Lute Society should even >>>> > acquire a left-handed hire lute. >>>> > >>>> > A good first step would be to establish a list, network, or database >>>> > of >>>> > left-handed players. >>>> > >>>> > Would any left-handed players care to contact the Lute Society >>>> > Secretary, lute...@aol.com, for their names to go on a contact list? >>>> > >>>> I suppose people like me, who are left-handed, but play right-handedly, >>>> would not be possible members of the worshipful company? >>>> (and it serves us right for betraying our essential sinistrality) >>>> >>>> Stuart >>>> > >>>> > best wishes >>>> > Chris Goodwin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >>>Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. >>> >>> >> >> ======================================== >> N¶®¶-±ST¢?ÿÁj¢yÁ-iYu > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. >Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > ========================================
