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Clearly Ms. Lynn plays left-handed--that's not merely a reversed photographic still, inasmuch as I've seen footage of her playing and she definitely plays left-handed.
But what's unclear from that photo or the footage I've seen is whether Lynn plays truly left-handed--i.e., with the high E and B strings at the bottom and the A and Low E strings up top, as do most left-handed guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix*, Paul McCartney and Los Lobos's Cesar Rojas--or does Lynn actually play a right-handed strung instrument just upside down, like early folk legend Elizabeth Cotton so famously did, and Texan stalwart singer/songwriter Shake Russell does to this day.
Can anyone answer definitively which style Lynn uses? Thanks in advance! [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN
Hendrix would here and there on a song or two play a right-handedly-strung instrument upside down as an occasional onstage stunt, presumably just to prove he could do it, but in studio Hendrix reportedly always played conventionally left-handed, even though it was usually on a backwardly-strung right-handed guitar, such as he used at Woodstock. (That always struck me oddly, actually, because an actual left-handed guitar (strung left-handedly, of course--is configured such that the highest notes are much easier to play (thanks to the cutaway) than on a left-strung right-handed instrument. Heck, even McCartney used a left-strung right-handed acoustic when he played "Yesterday" on The Ed Sullivan Show! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.99.20.254 (talk) 09:44, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
