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>, Adam
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>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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