Delhi: Left-handed guitar?

sgold

Not sure if this is the place to post this question...

Would it be difficult to buy a good quality left handed guitar in delhi? Any shops recommended? would be willing to pay up to 3000 - even 4000r.

Dont want to be stuck playing one the wrong way round for 2 months!

Thanks

crvlvr

There is really not much of a difference between the two tyoes except for the cutaway that allows you to access the higher frets. You can flip the strings around and will be ready to go. That's what Jimmy Hendrix did..

sgold

yeh - but, not being hendrix, it is better to just have it the right way round

has anyone seen any?

capt_mahajan

Good nobody is hendrix, coz they would be dead

Not Delhi, but http://www.bajaao.com/index.php used to have left handed guitars. Imported and expensive, though.

And try 'Onstage', Lajpat Nagar, Delhi, too.

There is another shop, Bhargava's at Delhi, but they have a poor reputation.

kristinm

My son is a leftie too!!! I know how hard it is to get one - for ages he played an accoustic restrung upside down and with no cutaways - which worked fine, then when he finally got his longed for electric (Just a Fender Squier - nothing too fancy!) we had to wait for 3 months for the shipment to come from the US. The worst thing is that if he doesn't have his own guitar with him, he can't just pick one up and jam with it... seems most left handed people force themselves to learn right handed - but he was just a leftie from the word go.

capt_mahajan

My son, too, is left handed, and he just learned to play a right handed guitar right from the beginning. So much so, that he found a left handed guitar odd, later.

He had some problems with other instruments too.

kristinm

Oscar picked up a guitar when he was about 5 and turned it straight over - never even tried to play right handed... then when he started lessons the teacher was dead against making him learn right-handed. Funnily enough, probably because he never had a choice playing school band drum kits and sharing drum kits with other kids having lessons - he sets his drum kit up right handed and plays drums right handed.

sgold

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! will check out onstage

Manoj Pant

Just got into this site. Actually, I am myself a left handed guitarist and it is really is a probelm getting a decent one in Delhi. Switching strings around is not correct. YOu actually need to get a lot of other adjustments made. For a traveller you also need something inexpensive. I have two suggestions. One, there is a very nice Gibson 12-string on display at On stage in Lajpat Nagar. Original left handed. Alternatively, I am getting rid of a left handed 6-string acoustic ( with transducer) which I am planning to get rid of now. Interested party may post interest




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