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Comment by kenhwang

7 months ago

String actuation requires much finer and varied motor skills than simply pressing down on the string. There's many strengths and directions in how a string can be plucked or bowed or strummed and it changes how it sounds, but pressing down on the string is pretty on/off binary.

yeah i am left handed but learned to play a right handed guitar and I have often wished i had done it differently - maybe one of these days i'll pick up a lefty guitar and learn all over again

  • same, I actually switched hands for a bit out of curiousity but didn't restring. mainly used to buy used guitars, pawn shop specials so finding a specifically right hand guitar would probably be more difficult, plus I liked the idea of being able to play a guitar that wasn't mine. I didn't do too much tho, as I'm not that good a right handed player either hehe