Talk:List of musicians who play left-handed

message: Backyard Babies's drummer Peder Carlsson plays drums Left Handed so should he be added?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megabar09 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but it is best to have a reference.  He needs to actually play left-handed, not be left-handed because some left-handed people play right-handed.  Bubba73 (the argument clinic), 21:45, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Backyard Babies

message: I'm pretty sure I remember Hendrix actually wrote Right Handed, and played Guitar left. I'm confident cause I do the opposite. Like him, I guess I just find it easier to fret with my dominant hand, cause Picking is easy to learn. AznWarlord (talk) 20:50, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That is true about Hendrix.  However, I believe that Hendrix was naturally left-handed but forced to write right-handed, as was a common practice at that time.  But the way you do it (fret with the dominant hand) - if that was applied to right-handed people then right-handed people would pick with the left hand instead of the right hand.  Often when a left-handed person plays right-handed it is because they had no lefty guitar available, or because no one would teach them to play left-handed.  Bubba73 (talk), 21:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hendrix

message: I categorized guitarists according to whether they play a right-handed guitar upside down (i.e. with the stings backwards for a left-handed player), or left-handed with the stings correct.  Ones that are reported as playing left-handed but are not known which of these two categories they belong are under "unclassified".  Please move them into one of the other two categories if you know where they belong. Bubba73 (talk), 20:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to guitarists 

message: e.g. Noel Gallagher of Oasis
Dave Hill of Slade  Mariegriffiths (talk) 20:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This fragment of the relevant edit history confirms good intentions, inattention to orderly procedure, and muddying of who has said which about what, in the preceding 2 non-blank lines.--Jerzy•t 22:34, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

text: There was an article with such information, but it was deleted because people felt that it was unimportant.  They thought that it was just an arbitraty intersection of two sets of people.  I was able to recover a copy of that old article, and it is User:Bubba73/Lefties.  See if you can use that to get a list.  Bubba73 (talk), 00:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need a list of left handed guitarists that play right handed. 

message: My God. Doesn't anyone know what alphabetical order is?! Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 03:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the alphabet in alphabetical order?2003:CA:3F1D:6736:2195:E62F:BD97:4E8 (talk) 17:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  List cleanup 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:JimiHendrix2.jpg

message: This is a list of notable musicians.  Let's only list ones who either have their own article or there is an article about their group. Bubba73 (talk), 20:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nonsense. It is not their individual notability that is at issue. As long as the info is verifiable, their relationship to this article is as instances illustrating or confirming the phenomena and patterns of musicians (among those serious enuf for verifiability to exist) adapting their individual developmental or physical statuses to the demands of predominantly mass-production of instruments, and the problems of getting adequate mentoring from a body of practitioners who are overwhelmingly both right-handed and experienced with right-handed (or left-handed but right-adapted) musicians.--Jerzy•t 01:28, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable musicians 

message: Ringo Starr was born left-handed, but was forced to write with his right hand.  He does most things left-handed, but he plays drums (and guitar) right-handed.  He has his drum set arranged as for a right-handed person and he does accents with the left-hand, the way a right-handed person does.  He says that he does lead off with the left hand when doing a fill.  Bubba73 (talk), 21:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ringo Starr 

message: Joe Long of The Four Seasons plays bass left handed due to a hand injury that made it impossible for him to press the frets with his left hand. This information is publically available in his interviews. B. Ryan173.76.242.72 (talk) 21:03, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Joe Long article doesn't say.  This old photo] show him playing left-handed but this more recent one does not, if I got the right Joe Long.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 21:44, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

text: Can you link to an interview where he states it?  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:21, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe Long

message: Justin Bieber is mentioned twice in the list of guitar players, but due to protection of the page I can't edit it. --Queenwillneverdie (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a long history of someone putting him in and then someone else taking him out.  I wish we could come to an agreement of whether or not he belongs there.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 14:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

text: The inclusion of Justin Bieber has always been contentious - someone puts him in and someone takes him out.  A few years ago the article included left-handed people who played right-handed, but the article was up for deletion.  The article was saved but the section with left-handed people who play right-handed was taken out, by consensus of the people taking part in the deletion discussion.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:27, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Justin Bieber 

message: Paul McCartney is listed as a left-handed trumpet player. I don't see any evidence that he even plays trumpet, let alone left-handed. So, assuming for the moment that he may have played trumpet, there's no evidence that he played left-handed. Only a tiny percentage of left-handed trumpet players play left-handed. Unlike left-handed guitars, left-handed trumpets are exceedingly rare. (Likewise, even right-handed french horn player play left handed).
OK, he's left handed, but if he picked up a trumpet in a recording session it's almost certain that it was an ordinary right-handed trumpet, and he used his right hand to control the valves. Likewise, when his father gave him a trumpet, it's almost certain that it was an ordinary right-handed trumpet, and he used his right hand to control the valves. The idea that he played trumpet left-handed is such an extraordinary claim that it should have extraordinary evidence. But in fact, there no evidence at all presented here. 
I plan to delete the claim. Anyone have a reason for me to leave it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 18:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he does play the trumpet, to some degree.  The pictures I've seen show him with a right-handed trumpet, but I think he was using his left hand for the valves.  I'll try to look it up.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:08, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I found some pictures of him, playing right-handed cornet and flugelhorn, using his left hand (which doesn't work very well). Some of the photos are mis-labeled "trumpet", but cornet and flugel are similar enough to trumpet that if he plays with his left hand on cornet and flugel, it makes sense that he does likewise on trumpet. Thanks. No deletion needed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 19:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, the book Beatles Gear says that he played the trumpet and googling "paul mccartney trumpet" shows some photos. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:19, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul McCartney 

message: Back in the '70s, one Yes keys player had a synth set up such that the key order was reversed, with low notes on the right. With MIDI (I'm familiar with Roland products), this can often be done by a simple setting change. As this is readily accessible, without need for creating a physically "reverse" instrument, certainly someone must have done it. Weeb Dingle (talk) 19:10, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As with restringing a righthanded guitar, the change is not complete simply be reprogramming the keys. Look at the keyboard, the black keys will still be "wrong".2003:CA:3F1D:6736:2195:E62F:BD97:4E8 (talk) 17:55, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  keyboards? 

message: Is there any pianists and keyboardists who play left handed? 99.20.106.241 (talk) 23:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I once saw a photo of a left-handed grand piano that was built for a left-handed person.  I don't know the name.  An electronic keyboard could be made to switch to left-handed, but I don't know if any do.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 00:58, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pianists and Keyboardists