1) The sax is a left handed instrument which right handed people are forced to play. The left hand is involved in every note of the saxophone but one, the second octave C# in which no fingers are involved. But the right hand has nothing to do when playing two octaves G G# A B C C# and can also rest in the highest octave of D and Eb.

2) IMHO The guitar is a left handed instrument. The left hand has to move to contorted shapes all up and down the neck while the right hand can pretty much stay in place. Left hand works much harder and needs more brain power.

When you learn a new song, where does most of your focus go? In the right hand? Nope, the fretting left hand.

TAB tells you which finger and fret to use but doesn't tell you what to do with your right hand. Because the left hand does most of the work.

So I think the left handed guitar sold to lefties is just a scam. They charge more money and offer fewer options but they use psychology to make the left handed person feel something is being made for him/her. So many things aren't. My sister wished they made left handed scissors when we were growing up so she could see the line she was cutting on without the blade being in the way.

Jimi Hendrix ate, wrote, and signed autographs with his right hand. I've read that he was ambidextrous, but right hand dominant. He knew the standard guitar was a left handed instrument.

I played in a band with a left handed guitarist. He could play either way, and would turn his SG around mid song for the show-biz effect. Although he was a lefty, he played better right handed and told me he was sure the normal guitar was a left handed instrument.

Violins, violas, cellos, double-basses don't come in left-right, nor does the piano.

I think the piano is a right handed instrument, but plenty of virtuosos are lefties.

So it's my opinion that the regular sax and guitar are left handed instruments, but I'm OK with that.

But then I'm right handed, so I can't really experience left handedness. Feel free to disagree.

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