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  • He played his guitar left handed but had his strings reversed so the lower E would be up as if played with the right hand.
  • i think he mostly played left handed, but i believe he was ambidextrous. i've seen footage of him flipping his guitar around and playing it right handed without a problem.
  • No, Hendrix only played guitar left handed. He wrote and held a fork with his right hand.
  • http://www.djnoble.demon.co.uk/ints/LeftyMatters.html says: Although few people are totally left-handed or totally right-handed, many children are pushed into using their right hand when they would normally use their left, either at home by their parents or at school by their teachers. Jimi Hendrix's younger brother Leon recalled: "When Jimi would play left-handed my dad would holler at him and tell him only devils and what-not would [play like that]. So when my dad would arrive home Jimi would turn the guitar over - that was how he learnt to play... Jimi would turn the guitar over and keep playing, then when dad left the room he'd turn it back over this way... [2]." Although Jimi played guitar left-handed, he would do a number of other things right-handed, possibly because he was forced to either by his father or by his teachers. Jimi would write lyrics or sign autographs with his right hand and would also hold a desert spoon with his right hand [as can be seen in the Moebius print "Food For Thought", based on Jean Noel Coghe's print entitled "Food"]. When greeting someone with a handshake he would use his right hand (Robert Fripp claimed that Jimi once told him at a party in London, "Shake my left hand man, it's closest to my heart") and when speaking on the phone he would hold the receiver in his right hand. However, Jimi would use his left hand for pitching the ball when playing baseball, for combing his hair and for holding a cigarette.
  • Jimi Hendrix Was Left handed, but as BassoProf said: "many children are pushed into using their right hand when they would normally use their left, either at home by their parents or at school by their teachers. That's what happened to Jimi, and that's why he wrote with his right hand. He was forced to do so.
  • jimi hendrix is the sit man!!!!xD
  • He played guitar left handed.

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