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- From: venkat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (mu)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
- Subject: Re: Blues: Albert King
- Message-ID: <86010@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:17:54 GMT
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- jsulliva@amstel.prime.com (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
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- >In the article, they described his sound and his playing
- >technique. I was surprized to see that he played left-handed, but even
- >more surprized to read that the guitar was not restrung!
- >I know that other famous left-handers (Jimi Hendrix, most notably) have
- >played right-handed guitars, but they appear to be restrung.
- >Is anyone else (lefty or righty) using this technique?
-
- True. Elizabeth Cotten(sp?) played guitar left-handed without
- restringing it. Coco Montoya(sp?) who plays with John Mayall,
- also does the same I think.
-
- murari venkataraman
- venkat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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