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Old 15th Apr 2019, 11:39 am   #15
dave walsh
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Thanks for that Lawrence. Also done on John Mayall's Crusade with Eric Clapton on "straight" Guitar and JM singing-not quite the same. I thought Elizabeth Cotten was going to be a one off but clearly not! It's amazing how the brain can adapt to a challenge. Maybe some of the other left hand players could also have left the strings in place but perhaps felt "different" enough already. I knew two brilliant teenage guitarists at school. One played left handed [although he was actually right handed for most things] because child hood polio had weakened his left arm so much it was much easier to do the chords with his right! He did reverse the strings, as I recall! As everyone says, the next program should be very interesting.

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