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Why did Jimi Hendrix smash up his guitar at the end of his performance? Maybe because he was a lefty playing a right-handed guitar! Hendrix played his guitars upside down and backwards – no wonder he was frustrated! In fact, until recently, left-handed guitars were custom-made and very expensive, so all lefty guitarists had to learn on righty instruments, usually strung backwards.
Our Glen Burton Dreadnought acoustic guitar is a recent design from Southern California, an inexpensive, high quality starter guitar designed especially for lefties. Named for a legendary Malibu surfer/guitarist (think “Wipe-Out”), Glen Burton full scale guitars are built to hold their tune. The guitar is 41” (full scale), with phospher bronze strings, a spruce top, basswood back and sides, catalpa neck, and rosewood bridge and finger board.
This guitar is full size, and priced for the beginning lefty player. Price includes a black nylon gig bag. We also sell a lefty chord book that’s perfect for this guitar.
Famous Left-Handed Guitar Players
Paul McCartney: Lead singer of the Beatles, the most successful signer and songwriter of pop music history. Wrote two of the most popular acoustic guitar songs ever recorded : “Yesterday”, and “Blackbird”.
Jimi Hendrix: Legendary rock musician who, in his brief 29 year life, expanded the possibilities of electric guitar “to places his piers couldn’t have imagined” (Wikipedia)
Curt Cobain: Leader of the highly popular 1980’s group Nirvana.
Dick Dale: Known as the “King of the Surf Guitar”. |
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