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Dean 
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
 Posted: May 08 2012 at 09:26 |
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It would be a lot less confusing if we gave these things their proper name: backwards guitar is obviously Ratiug - upsidedown backwards guitar is ɹɐʇınƃ and upsidedown Guitar is פnıʇɐɹ.
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What?
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Epignosis
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32524 |
Posted: May 08 2012 at 16:35 |
I was just about to Google "Ratiug," too.  |
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Apache7
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Joined: May 29 2012 Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: May 29 2012 at 07:53 |
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Check it out! Here's the real skinny on Doyle Bramhall II's Backward Telecaster. First of all, he's left-handed, so he took a left-handed Telecaster body and put a RIGHT-handed neck on it (so the tuning keys are pointing down), THEN, he strings it right-handed. In otherwords, the stringing is upside-down!!! Very Strange, indeed. Well, like I always tell a blind hooker, "I gotta hand it to ya".
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HackettFan
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Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: July 21 2012 at 10:32 |
Me too. I'm left handed, but I play "right handed". The most complex coordination is required on the fret hand. The only people I have seen pick up a guitar for the first time and hold it "left handed" have been right handed in every other way. |
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kludge
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Joined: August 15 2012 Status: Offline Points: 9 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 02:43 |
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My bandmate Beth Kinderman plays left-handed by flipping right-handed guitars over. What's even more twisted is that she's actually right-handed... she has an orthopedic problem in her left elbow that prevents her from playing traditional right-handed guitar. She's self-taught, and by the time she found out there was such thing as a left-handed guitar, she'd already written enough songs that she stuck with it.
Between the upside-down fingerings, the oft-used capo, and the truly twisted chord changes she loves, it's amusing as heck to me to watch other guitarists try to play along with her at folkie music circles. I've been playing with her for years, and I know better than to try to read her hands.
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Smurph
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Joined: January 11 2012 Location: Columbus&NYC Status: Offline Points: 3167 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 02:45 |
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Kludge! What band is this? There aren't many of us that play like that!
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20240 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 03:48 |
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Josh Pollock of Daevid Allen's University of Errors also plays a unrestrung right handed guitar as a leftie
Josh Pollock is the one in the red pyjama and you get a close up of his guitar around the six-mins mark (one of the most fun concerts I've seen too) Same concert, Daevid was looking intensely right into the eyes of this (unknown to me) woman standing next to me, and she was litteraly melting (though it's not plainly visible on the video)... I had dropped my jacket on the floor, and bending down to pick it up, her jeans' crotch area was dark blue of wetness... When she saw I saw and knew, she put one hand on my crotch then seeing that I was interested, she took me by the hand to the ladies' room... we missed the next 15 minutes of the concert btw: her name was NOT Caroline, and I suspect she knew Daevid didn't wear anything under that priest's robe (he showed it plainly to everyone at the end of the show, attempting to rape the little boy in the red pyjama) Edited by Sean Trane - August 16 2012 at 01:46 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Sheavy
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 28 2010 Location: Alabama Status: Offline Points: 2866 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 05:42 |
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I know Dick Dale does.
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Tapfret
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8581 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 18:10 |
I smoke my pipe backwards. |
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kludge
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Joined: August 15 2012 Status: Offline Points: 9 |
Posted: August 15 2012 at 22:11 |
Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters. Imagine if Lilith Fair had a prog band... it would be us. Listen to "Stone Game" from the Winter Is Coming album on the bandcamp link for the way she plays (she's on acoustic, I'm on electric). Or listen to the entire Fool's Trilogy track... Stone Game is the third in a trilogy of songs, and I made a point of matching the instrumentation through the entire trilogy so it sounds like a continuous piece. It started as a live track for months before recording, and I don't like to hear the individual songs out of the trilogy context. Another good one for her playing is "Blue Horizon", the opening track on Apocalypse Blues. She did all the guitars on that song - I was on bass. But yeah, love playing with her! We've built up a really great two-guitar thing together. She writes really complex, intricate songs, and I can't read her hands very well, so I have to really LISTEN and create complementary parts.
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Dean wrote:
