S. Beane
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First of all I am a right handed player but have worked teaching left handed players guitar and ukulele. While not ideal, finding an inexpensive starter ukulele that can be switched to play left handed is not so horrible to get through the "do I really want to do this" period. If the player becomes hooked, there are many left handed ukuleles across the entire price and quality range available for purchase. I came across Pineapple Pete's take on the issue of left handed ukulele players and am completely flabbergasted. He comes off like a Nun beating a left handed child's hand with a ruler because they are using the "devils" hand:
http://www.ukeschool.com/ukulele/left_handed_ukulele.html
Here's some quotes that struck home:
"I do not believe that you need a ukulele that is set up backwards to almost every other ukulele in the world."
Wow! Not backwards to the left handed player. Let's see, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix (rest his soul), Tony Iommi and on and on.
"If you really insist on learning to play that way, and do succeed in securing an instrument that is set up that way and plays nicely - you'll be all alone. You will not be able to find song books."
Alone? Song Books? OMG - give them a Left Handed chord chart.
"When you meet some cute member of the opposite gender on a train in some exotic location, and they just happen to have a ukulele with them, you will not be able to treat them to a song."
What self respecting ukulele lothario will be traveling without his personal tool of seduction. Also, what if the opposite gender is left handed too, ah.. serendipity!
"And despite having sight-read scores with fancy swing bands, I could not for the life of me work out even the easiest songs from left-handed song books. To a left-handed player, almost every instrument, and every book, in the world was confusing and useless."
??????????
"The world is a lonely, resourceless place for people who make a simple decision a certain way at the very very very beginning of learning to play an instrument."
Very Very Very?
Am I being too critical here? I'd like to get your opinions please.
http://www.ukeschool.com/ukulele/left_handed_ukulele.html
Here's some quotes that struck home:
"I do not believe that you need a ukulele that is set up backwards to almost every other ukulele in the world."
Wow! Not backwards to the left handed player. Let's see, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix (rest his soul), Tony Iommi and on and on.
"If you really insist on learning to play that way, and do succeed in securing an instrument that is set up that way and plays nicely - you'll be all alone. You will not be able to find song books."
Alone? Song Books? OMG - give them a Left Handed chord chart.
"When you meet some cute member of the opposite gender on a train in some exotic location, and they just happen to have a ukulele with them, you will not be able to treat them to a song."
What self respecting ukulele lothario will be traveling without his personal tool of seduction. Also, what if the opposite gender is left handed too, ah.. serendipity!
"And despite having sight-read scores with fancy swing bands, I could not for the life of me work out even the easiest songs from left-handed song books. To a left-handed player, almost every instrument, and every book, in the world was confusing and useless."
??????????
"The world is a lonely, resourceless place for people who make a simple decision a certain way at the very very very beginning of learning to play an instrument."
Very Very Very?
Am I being too critical here? I'd like to get your opinions please.
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