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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 5:50:06 GMT
I just had a question. Maybe it was already addressed, but I haven't found it anywhere on here.
I keep on seeing pictures of Faul playing a right-handed guitar left-handed, and that really doesn't make sense to me. I don't know what importance that would have, but it's pretty much self-defeating for him to do that if he played guitar left-handed. Unless, that is, he could play guitar upside down. Could he?
But what I don't understand is that it's electric. I can understand him just getting the strings on an acoustic guitar flipped over, just to save some money, but it's less expensive to get a left-handed guitar than to get an electric guitar flipped over.
Can anyone explain this to me? It just doesn't make sense to me. Thanks
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TheDZ
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 19, 2005 6:06:19 GMT
You mean like this...?
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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 6:24:40 GMT
What didn't make sense to me was that the controls were underneath his arm. I can understand the pictures that you posted. But the controls are bulky, and from advice that I've been given, that isn't something good, especially if you're going to be playing for a long time.
I'm a left-handed guitar player, and I took a couple lessons, and my guitar instructor specifically warned me about that, and about how uncomfortable it is. He had a lot of money, and left- handed guitars aren't that much more expensive.
Maybe I'm missing something...
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Post by BeatlePaul on Apr 19, 2005 6:57:14 GMT
I just had a question. Maybe it was already addressed, but I haven't found it anywhere on here. I keep on seeing pictures of Faul playing a right-handed guitar left-handed, and that really doesn't make sense to me. I don't know what importance that would have, but it's pretty much self-defeating for him to do that if he played guitar left-handed. Unless, that is, he could play guitar upside down. Could he? But what I don't understand is that it's electric. I can understand him just getting the strings on an acoustic guitar flipped over, just to save some money, but it's less expensive to get a left-handed guitar than to get an electric guitar flipped over. Can anyone explain this to me? It just doesn't make sense to me. Thanks [glow=red,2,300]?[/glow]
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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 7:23:34 GMT
I just wanna know why he's playing a right-handed electric guitar upside down. I want to know if there's a reasonable explanation for that. From anything that I've ever been told about electric guitars, that isn't something that guitarists want to do. I want to know if anyone with more experience than me would understand that.
I just think that it might have some bearing on the whole thing. If Faul was a right-handed guitarist, and had to learn to play left-handed, he might have just played normally when recording. That would explain why he was using a right-handed guitar. Then, when he saw that someone was about to take his picture, he flipped it over. That's my opinion. I guess I should have stated myself clearer. I just wanted to know if there was a reasonable explanation for it before stating my theory, because it isn't exactly the greatest theory.
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Post by BeatlePaul on Apr 19, 2005 7:34:30 GMT
I just wanna know why he's playing a right-handed electric guitar upside down. I want to know if there's a reasonable explanation for that. From anything that I've ever been told about electric guitars, that isn't something that guitarists want to do. I want to know if anyone with more experience than me would understand that. I just think that it might have some bearing on the whole thing. If Faul was a right-handed guitarist, and had to learn to play left-handed, he might have just played normally when recording. That would explain why he was using a right-handed guitar. Then, when he saw that someone was about to take his picture, he flipped it over. That's my opinion. I guess I should have stated myself clearer. I just wanted to know if there was a reasonable explanation for it before stating my theory, because it isn't exactly the greatest theory. Faul NEVER played a right-handed electric guitar upside down. Faul had to replicate WHAT James Paul McCartney did. He played a normal guitar or bass guitar with reversed strings. There are guitars and bass guitars for left-handed people too (mirror built). Again ... where is that problem? Aahh you are referring to pictures printed "elsewhere". No, that was the frames were reversed.
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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 7:57:05 GMT
I understand what you're saying.
But I have seen pictures of Paul playing a left-handed bass before. I'm sure he had enough money to buy a left-handed bass. I've also seen pictures of Faul playing a left-handed bass.
It's just been a couple of pictures in which I've seen him playing a right-handed bass upside down.
I could accept the idea of him playing a converted bass, except for the fact that it would be incredibly uncomfortable. I've been told that it is uncomfortable, and to test out that idea, I grabbed my own bass, and flipped it over, and sat down with it like I was going to play. It was incredibly uncomfortable. My elbow hit one of the knobs, and the body of the bass itself was uncomfortable.
Another thing that made me wonder about that picture was the fact that if you change a guitar from right- to left- handed, the guitar becomes out of tune, and it can't be corrected. If he's a professional musician, why would he want to be out of tune all the time?
And the photos that I saw weren't mirror printed. They were the way that they should be, because the guitar was facing the right direction. Plus, mirror printing shouldn't cause the guitar to flip around like that, where the bottom is on top, and the top is on the bottom.
I just have this personal theory, I guess, that Faul only learned how to play bass left-handed in concert, and when he recorded, played normally. That would explain his secrecy about recording bass during his years with Wings.
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Post by defhermit on Apr 19, 2005 16:01:45 GMT
it really is not that uncomfortable... I can imagine it happening... left-handed guitars are like 1/20th as common as right-handed ones so I cam imagine people simply re-stringing a buddy's guitar if they wanted to play but didn't feel like traveling to get a left-handed one...
I think the original poster was getting at the idea that possibly Faul poses with a right-handed guitar simply flipped over to his left hand and then puts it back in his right and starts recording....
show me some of these pictures with him playing a right-handed guitar in his left and I can probably point to you how the you can tell from string thickness that it's been restrung for a left-hander...
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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 18:24:44 GMT
OK. You're right. I must not have looked at the picture close enough. The strings are normal. Thanks for helping me to understand that.
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Post by beatled on Apr 19, 2005 20:11:19 GMT
From Anthology, I think we determined that the most likely scenario is that some frames were flipped. Why, that's a good question, seems kind of unprofessional of the editors? http://*banned link*/Shoebox/IndiaGuitar/IndiaGuitar1.jpg[/img] http://*banned link*/Shoebox/IndiaGuitar/IndiaGuitar2.jpg[/img] http://*banned link*/Shoebox/IndiaGuitar/IndiaGuitar3.jpg[/img] http://*banned link*/Shoebox/IndiaGuitar/IndiaGuitar4.jpg[/img]
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Post by AuroraLucy on Apr 19, 2005 21:23:16 GMT
It is. The thing that I keep on wondering about is why he plays a converted guitar. I have one of those, and it isn't really that great. It's a pain to do, and it's never in tune. After a point, it's self defeating. I'm sure he has enough money to buy a regular left-handed guitar. Why doesn't he do that?
The pictures that you posted showed him in a casual setting, so I can understand him just using a spare guitar, or one that didn't really matter to him, or like it was stated earlier, one that he borrowed from his friends. But if I were him, and I had as much money as him, I would buy guitars made for me, and maybe a cheap left-handed one to have handy for any times that I might need it. A converted right-handed guitar is a good thing to have if you can't have anything else, but he could.
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Post by defhermit on Apr 19, 2005 22:56:41 GMT
jimi hendrix played a right-handed guitar stung upside-down for his entire career, and many people say that he was the best guitarist ever, period... so it can't be that uncomfortable...
there are a thousand companies out there that don't make ANY left-handed guitars... there are individual guitar-making artisans that only make right-handed guitars...
as any guitar player will tell you, guitars are like corn chips, you can't have just one... once you play guitar seriously it's fun to try different ones and compare the sound, sustain, etc.... especially recording musicians... if you look at musician magazines you will see that guitar players tend to collect lots and lots of guitars... they go to pawn shops and pick up a guitar if they like the sound...
would a left-hander only buy left-handed guitars? absolutely not. even if they had all the money in the world... only trying and playing left-handed guitars would mean you don't get to try about 90% of guitars out there and virtually no "small name" guitars...
the fact that he is shown in some pictures playing a right-handed guitar strung upside-down means NOTHING. show me a picture of him playing right handed where the pic isn't flipped and then you've got something...
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Post by BeatlePaul on Apr 20, 2005 16:20:29 GMT
It is. The thing that I keep on wondering about is why he plays a converted guitar. I have one of those, and it isn't really that great. It's a pain to do, and it's never in tune. After a point, it's self defeating. I'm sure he has enough money to buy a regular left-handed guitar. Why doesn't he do that? The pictures that you posted showed him in a casual setting, so I can understand him just using a spare guitar, or one that didn't really matter to him, or like it was stated earlier, one that he borrowed from his friends. But if I were him, and I had as much money as him, I would buy guitars made for me, and maybe a cheap left-handed one to have handy for any times that I might need it. A converted right-handed guitar is a good thing to have if you can't have anything else, but he could. Hello.... hello.... AuroraLucy ... those images were flipped or mirror printed ...so there is no question about. Faul is playing left-handed a normal Martin D-16 Folk Guitar with strings reversed.
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Post by Dr.No on Apr 20, 2005 17:56:23 GMT
just as a note: Left Handed guitars are typically cheaper, unless they're custom ordered from the manufacturer.
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Post by abbey on Apr 23, 2005 22:30:47 GMT
Faul had to reverse the strings on a lefthanded guitar so they would play right for him because he was NOT left handed. When Paul first started playing guitar he wondered why it sounded all wrong. Then he realized he was playing it left handed and so he had to turn it upside down. We know Bill is a rightie so he had to fake the left handed thing. Has anyone noticed that Bill does more piano work at concerts than anything requiring the Hofner?
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Post by plastic paul on Apr 24, 2005 22:50:52 GMT
Apart from superbowl, which IMO was his last attempt at winning over us PIDers. NEVER!
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Post by LUCY on Apr 25, 2005 3:19:46 GMT
Faul had to reverse the strings on a lefthanded guitar so they would play right for him because he was NOT left handed. When Paul first started playing guitar he wondered why it sounded all wrong. Then he realized he was playing it left handed and so he had to turn it upside down. We know Bill is a rightie so he had to fake the left handed thing. Has anyone noticed that Bill does more piano work at concerts than anything requiring the Hofner? ..just off the top of my head, all memory of seeing him "live" is definitely piano....100%....
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Post by gracemer on Apr 25, 2005 5:18:50 GMT
I never paid to see him. ;D But he couldn't dump that bass fast enough at the Super Bowl.
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Post by abbey on Apr 25, 2005 19:23:04 GMT
Thank you, Thank you!!! The footages that I have seen of him live always show the piano.
Yes, gracemer, watching the Super Bowl Bill acted like he was afraid of the Hofner or uncertain of it. Maybe because he can't really play it?
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Post by BeatlePaul on Apr 25, 2005 23:41:27 GMT
I saw Uncle Bill in Rome with Sun King. Bill was always looking at the bass neck keyboard when he played "his" hofner and the guitar. There was a moment when he started to "wear" his bass as a right handed. Soon he changed position.
Yes he seemed more confortable when on piano. Always.
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