A friend needs a Lefty fiddle tune book

[Lou Giordano]

Please post some links or sources . He's starting again at 85 years young.

Thanks

[Eric C.]

Do lefties play different notes?

[Lou Giordano]

Do lefties play different notes?

The fretboard is reversed. Top to bottom strings . That's why they have lefty books.

[ukrobbiej]

Are you sure? Surely a left hand mandolin still has the lowest string at the bottom of the instrument (nearest the floor)? This corresponds with mandolin Tab regardless of whether the player is right or left handed. Confused ��!!!

Robbie

[HonketyHank]

Get your righty fiddle tune book and hold it up to a mirror?

[DavidKOS]

Staff notation does not come right or left handed, so I assume you mean a TAB book?

[JeffD]

Wait, I am so confused. If you are playing a left handed mandolin, and playing it left handed, the tab wouldn't change. Right?

[Mark Gunter]

The numbers on tablature are fret positions - not "finger numbers" - so like the rest, I'm totally confused why you'd need a different tablature for a lefty

This is a good reason to just break down and practice reading standard notation. I understand he's in his eighties.

Can you give more detail what you're looking for?
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Ah, I see you've "clarified"

The fretboard is reversed. Top to bottom strings . That's why they have lefty books.

This doesn't really make a lot of sense. All you have to know on tablature is what the tuning is on each string. Assume standard tuning, and read the proper fret number for the proper string, pretty simple it seems, without having to change the order of the strings in the graphic. Hopefully some lefties will chime in, there are many here, and as far as I know, none have to use "special books."

[des]

TAB is genuinely ambidextrous - it does not change because - as UKrobbiej says - the stringing is normally inverted on left handed instruments. I think Jimi Hendrix - who was left-handed - played a right handed guitar upside down without inverting the stringing. I suppose if left handed guitars and mandolins were strung that way left-handed TAB would be a possibility.

Maybe the issue for the original poster is chord diagrams - they are indeed wrong way round for left-handers - and I suspect that's the reason for left hand instruction books.

It's interesting that left handed players of instruments like guitar and mandolin mostly play left handed instruments. That's not the case for wind instruments or keyboards and I don't think it's the case for the violin family - even though there might be dominant hand issues that could justify it for bowed strings

[farmerjones]

At one time there were probably more left handed folks playing right handed instruments. But as time goes on, left handed instruments became more accessible. I would contact Steve Perry. He's a member here, if I wanted a left handed instrument. Myself, left hand dominant, but play all conventional instruments, including piano. No joke, they made a few lefty pianos.

[Lou Giordano]

Well folks I'm not sure what to say. I know he has left handed guitar books. I guess he need help with the cords. I don't know. Like I said it's not for me. He just bought an inexpensive lefty fiddle . He was complaining about not finding any lefty fiddle books. He's I good old guy and I am just trying to help him out. He's old and crazy but my best friend . Funny he looks and acts just like the cranky old trainer in the Rocky movies , played by Burgess Meredith . Maybe a lefty mandolin tab would help him. I didn't think of that.


Thanks guys

[bigskygirl]

Find out if he’s truly playing a lefty strung Fiddle or has just turned a regular one upside down ala Jimmy Hendrix....like this lady...she’s fabulous and a Fiddle champ.

https://www.google.com/search?lr=&as...21.w-NF3X6ajk8

[farmerjones]

He just bought an inexpensive lefty fiddle . He was complaining about not finding any lefty fiddle books.

He might just be having some fun with you? I pray his hearing is still good. Reading music or not, one really needs their ears for feedback, with no frets. Best of Luck

[Bob Visentin]

There are no lefty fiddle books. Unlike guitar and mandolin most left handed violin players play like right handed players. Same for piano.

[Lou Giordano]

Find out if he’s truly playing a lefty strung Fiddle or has just turned a regular one upside down ala Jimmy Hendrix....like this lady...she’s fabulous and a Fiddle champ.

https://www.google.com/search?lr=&as...21.w-NF3X6ajk8

When he plays it he holds the fiddle in his right hand and the bow in his left hand. The E string is on the left and the G string is on the right.

[Lou Giordano]

There are no lefty fiddle books. Unlike guitar and mandolin most left handed violin players play like right handed players. Same for piano.

Thanks Bob I finally got an answer to my question.

[bigskygirl]

When he plays it he holds the fiddle in his right hand and the bow in his left hand. The E string is on the left and the G string is on the right.

Then the TAB is the same...isn’t it...

[Lou Giordano]

I tell you what . I won't be foolish enough to ask for help in this section again. I ask a simple question. Only one person answered the question . That's after the 17 posts.

[bigskygirl]

Maybe that would be best...

[Phil Goodson]

I tell you what . I won't be foolish enough to ask for help in this section again. I ask a simple question. Only one person answered the question . That's after the 17 posts.

Rudeness does not become you.

[jesserules]

Here is a lengthy discussion of fiddle-related handedness from an Irish Traditional Music forum:

https://thesession.org/discussions/24008

[ukrobbiej]

I tell you what . I won't be foolish enough to ask for help in this section again. I ask a simple question. Only one person answered the question . That's after the 17 posts.

The trouble was it was neither a simple question, nor one that most of us could answer. We didn’t understand the question because, like the chap who DID answer the question how you wanted, the thing you were after doesn’t exist. Sorry if you felt we were being rude.

Robbie

[Lou Giordano]

The trouble was it was neither a simple question, nor one that most of us could answer. We didn’t understand the question because, like the chap who DID answer the question how you wanted, the thing you were after doesn’t exist. Sorry if you felt we were being rude.

Robbie

How can you say my question wasn't simple?. Did you read it? I asked for a link or a source for a lefty book.
The simple answer was it doesn't exist. That was easy and simple . I would have been fine with that. Only one person. Bob explained it doesn't exist. The rest judged me for asking .

[ukrobbiej]

Yes I can read thank you. Trouble is, it wasn’t really a question was it, it was more of a demand. Anyway, tired of responding to such a rude person.

Robbie

[StuartE]

Hendrix restrung his guitars, bluesman Albert King played upside down.

According to Gibson:

You’ll see Duane Allman, Mark Knopfler, Danny Gatton, Billy Corgan, Michael Bloomfield, Gary Moore and Noel Gallagher play guitar right-handed. So which is naturally left-handed? Answer = all of them.