Tony Quinn wrote:
>> 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
Ah, okay. So I presume John would hold his own guitar to the right
(inverted for him), and, watching Paul, press down on the farthest
string when Paul was pressing the nearest (highest string for both), and
vice versa. Then John would go home and figure things out.
I'd been picturing John facing Paul as if facing a mirror, like I did
when a lefty tried to show me how to use chopsticks. I can't play
guitar (yet), but I studied piano, which (for better or worse) is always
set up the same way, and (usually for worse) is often an unfamiliar
instrument. Thanks again for all your patient explanations!
Adam, about as right-handed as they get
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