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Poll Question: What is your hand preference?
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Originally posted by N Ellingworth N Ellingworth wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ makes much sense to me ... I'm left handed and play a "normal" guitar. Usually the hand on the fretboard "leads".


Same here, to be honest I am surprised that most players don't use their strong hand for fretting and the weaker hand for strumming/picking, still the most important thing is to play in a way that's comfortable for you.


I used to think that I should play a left handed guitar but I was forced to conform to society when I was told playing a right handed guitar upside down was not normal. I wish I could still do that but I can't. maybe if I tried learning it again with my right hand as the fretting hand.
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Points: 1324 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:21
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ makes much sense to me ... I'm left handed and play a "normal" guitar. Usually the hand on the fretboard "leads".


Same here, to be honest I am surprised that most players don't use their strong hand for fretting and the weaker hand for strumming/picking, still the most important thing is to play in a way that's comfortable for you.
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I have a weird thing. I can open jars with my left hand but not my right. I catch with my left and throw with my right. I can write left handed though it is a bit messy. I am mainly right handed though. 
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Points: 12625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2007 at 16:14
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

My ambidexterousness shows in a special phenomenon: Ask a person to shoot an arrow from a bow. A right-handed person will pick up the bow with the left hand, place an arrow in the string with the left and then shoot. It is the other way round with a left-handed person. I will automatically choose the left-handed version; in fact I just couldn't imagine to do it the other way round. I will also throw darts at a board with my left hand. But I will write with my right hand and prefer to do most other things with my right hand too, also and especially throwing a ball. So I throw darts with my left hand and balls with my right. Quite unusual.
 
It is unusual, but not ambidextruous. Smile
Ambidextruous means being able to do the same operations at the same level with both hands.
I met someone like that once in my army service. He showed it to us. He wrote a paragraph with his right hand and then the same thing with the left and the writing was quite similar (small minor changes). He also used to open bottle and cans with both hands. He said he had no particular preference. And so forth.
 
 
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I guess it just depends on how you learn something - or what you're getting used to.
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My ambidexterousness shows in a special phenomenon: Ask a person to shoot an arrow from a bow. A right-handed person will pick up the bow with the left hand, place an arrow in the string with the left and then shoot. It is the other way round with a left-handed person. I will automatically choose the left-handed version; in fact I just couldn't imagine to do it the other way round. I will also throw darts at a board with my left hand. But I will write with my right hand and prefer to do most other things with my right hand too, also and especially throwing a ball. So I throw darts with my left hand and balls with my right. Quite unusual.


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^ makes much sense to me ... I'm left handed and play a "normal" guitar. Usually the hand on the fretboard "leads".
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A guy in my class is right handed, but plays a left handed guitar.
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Same for me, Mike. I use both hands, but for different purposes. Left hand is for writing, though. So i picked that.

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I would call myself left-handed because I write with my left hand ... but most other things that left-handed people usually do with their left hand I do with my right hand - like throwing balls, using the computer mouse, playing the guitar/keyboards, ...
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

Right handed.

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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

I'm ambidextrous, but at one point in life decided to go for right-handed (basically after everyone told me I had to use the "beautiful" hand for writing and holding a knife. Yes, they still did that kind of bulls**t when I was a kid).
 
Almost my case (Not because of beauty but because of an old superstition), I was born lefty but in the 70's the nuns believed the left hand was unholy, so they forced the three lefties of my class to write with the right hand (I believe it was because they didn't had desks for lefties Wink).
 
So I became an incomplete ambidextrous with an horrible handwritting, later the priests (When we end basic school we pass to from nuns to priests school) who had psychologysts and knew how harmful this is, tried to undo what the nuns had done for 5 years but it was too late.
 
When I played soccer I kicked with the left foot, but never was able to have a decent handwriting.
 
Thanks God they no longer do that because it caused me several problems.
 
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It's rather difficult to remember as for quite some time I've elected to use my tongue for normal "handy" tasks.  Tongue-typing, for instance, may not be for everyone, but nothing says "How do you do?" like a firm, wet tongue-shake.

That may have been a little hard to swallow, but as a matter of fact, I'm always "right."  Right it is.
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Go lefties!

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I'm a right handed person.
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Right handed.
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I'm a righty!
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Hmm - T and Melomaniac seem to be thinking along the lines I was when I read the poll title. Actually, my first reaction was 'my wife's hand', but looking at the poll, I can only admit to being left-handed, like my wife and my daughter. Our son is 3 years old, he's going to find out in the next 12 months whether or not he's going to be the household righty...
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Right-handed, but very able with my left hand also. (No misinterpretations please LOL)
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