Famous left-handed guitar players
Are you a left-handed guitarist? If you are, you’re in good company – some of the biggest guitarists in history are southpaws.
Jimi Hendrix
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The most famous left-handed guitarist of all time is Jimi Hendrix. Unable to find a left-handed guitar, Hendrix used a right-handed guitar and flipped it over, making some changes to the hardware and switching the strings to make it playable.
Tony Iommi
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi is left-handed like his musical hero, Jimi Hendrix. Left-handed guitars were hard to come by in Iommi’s native England, so he played a right-handed Gibson SG upside down. Then, he met a person who played a left-handed guitar upside down, and the two decided to swap guitars.
Paul McCartney
The Beatle plays left-handed, although he’s not a true lefty. McCartney is right-hand dominant – however, when he started learning guitar, McCartney was unsuccessful playing right-handed. After seeing a picture of American country music artist Slim Whitman playing left-handed, he realized he could reverse the guitar. He told Guitar Player in 1990 that he can play right-handed, “only enough for parties”.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was a natural lefty who was forced to write right-handed. He learned guitar left-handed, and eventually Fender made him left-handed Mustang guitars once the band hit it big.
Albert King
One of the all-time great blues guitarists, Albert King was left handed and played with his guitar flipped upside down. 
Courtney Barnett
Australian indie rock artist Courtney Barnett plays guitar left-handed. She uses mostly left-handed guitars (low strings at the top, high strings at the bottom).
Tim Armstrong
Rancid/Operation Ivy frontman Tim Armstrong is left-handed and has collaborated with Fender and Gretsch for models of left- and right-handed signature guitars.
Otis Rush
Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Otis Rush was a lefty. He played guitars that were strung with the low E at the bottom.
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