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Lefty Guitar

A collection of all the best left-handed guitar resources on the web, including lessons, retailers, and more.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Lefty or Righty?
This popular magazine answers the question; should left-handed people interested in learning the guitar do so left or right handed?
Chord Generator for Lefties
This helpfool online tool will show you how to play lots of chords. Change from righty to lefty in the pull-down menu, and all chords will be displayed for southpaws.
Convert a guitar bridge for left handed guitarists
You'll have to do more than re-string a right handed guitar if you want to use it for lefty purposes. This page shows the highlights of changing a guitar bridge to suit lefty players.
Dave's Lefty Guitar Resources
This page is designed for intermediate guitarists looking to expand their knowledge of the fretboard. Includes triadic chord shapes, plus more advanced chord forms, illustrated for lefties.
Gauche! Lefty Tips
Various thoughts and ideas are collected in this article; including short documentation on how to turn a right-handed guitar to a lefty guitar (yikes!) Also, a lot of user submitted lefty anecdotes.
Lefty.com Artist List
A listing of many notable guitarists who were left-handed. Includes fictional guitarists, and guitarists who are left-handed, but play guitar right-handed.
Lefty's Lounge
A bulletin board for sharing left-handed guitar information. Tends to focus on lefty guitars for sale on eBay, etc.
SouthPaw Guitars
A guitar store based in Houston Texas, that specializes in left handed guitars of various manufacturers. Concentration seems to be on slightly higher end guitars.
Southpaw Solutions
A detailed article written by Jeff Foster, exploring whether left-handed people new to the guitar should learn left or right handed.

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