When I started to learn the mando, not having played any fretted instrument, I found it impossible to find a new lefty beginner instrument (be it 'cheap').
Yes, of course there were some, but not many lefties around (mostly used and not so many new stock items), but nothing that I would want to purchase for little money. So, I purchased my first instrument as a righty.
Actually there was no problem to learn on this instrument since my fingers and mind had no idea what was right (righty) or wrong (lefty). The DVD's and books that I started with favored the righty, therefore, there was no problem to learn 'righty' on my own. When I sought out my first player instrument I had no thoughts to convert (my fingers and mind) to a lefty. I simply purchased an off the shelf Gibson righty model.
Lefties UNITE! What are your experiences?
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