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From: Tony Quinn 
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Subject: Re: Ringo: Left-handed drummer, right-handed drum kit?
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In message , Adam 
 writes
>Tony Quinn wrote:
>> Nonsense - in the Live(ish) At Abbey Road show that I have on DVD 
>>(the  one with the Studer J37), he plays a conventionally strung 
>>rightie 6  string upside down for a few chords of 20 flight rock, and 
>>then changes  to a conventionally strung leftie 6 string. Just because 
>>he CAN play  that way, doesn't mean that he does.
>
>Thanks for the clarification!  I misinterpreted something John said in 
>the Playboy interviews (p.117 in the hardcover):
>
>"Paul taught me how to play the guitar proper -- but I had to learn the 
>chords left-handed, because Paul is left-handed. So I learned them 
>upside down and I'd go home and reverse them. I can still play upside 
>down, with the high strings on top."

But for John (not a lefty), Paul's (a lefty) higher pitched strings 
would be on the top ...

I'm a lefty and if you (a righty) invert my guitar then the high strings 
*are* nearer your chin
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