Shit, I just realized what kind of situation you ****ers have put me in...

:facepalm:

I'm a lefty and play golf right handed..she'll be fine.

....it's all in your head, anyway.

If she becomes a serious player, it is more difficult to find preferred equipment lefthanded. I started teaching my son to play right handed as well (he's a lefty). I think if you already have the equipment, check to see how well she responds and how perservering she is. I don't know, so far my son hasn't shown the followthru to prove me right.

I would want my dominant hand picking and strumming. Dexterity comes pretty quick with practice.

Yeah, that's a big part of it.

I don't want to lay down a 40% premium for a lefty axe only to have her quit in a year...

Exactly. You guys act like this girl is going to be shredding through scales. I would want my dominant hand doing the strumming or picking. Really depends what kind of guitarist she is but if she is learning acoustic which I think all beginners should start with. Definetly don't create a larger learning curve by forcing her to play right. You can buy a cheap left handed guitar to see how she responds

restring the rightie to allow her to learn it leftie (yes I know the pick gaurd will be upside down)......if she sticks with it, you go buy her a new leftie.

If she wants it do what you can and hook her up lefty.

She'll pass through a phase or make you proud and keep with it...

I've seen you golf. :evil:

This is an interesting topic.

I started playing drums at a young age (righty). I was pretty accomplished and when I was a freshman in HS I met another fellow drummer who was left handed. We were both in orchestra and other band combos (jazz, etc). We both had our drum kits at school and I started messing around with his left handed kit. I sucked at first, but after a while I got to the point I liked playing lefty as much as righty. It also made for some interesting variations doing things I normally did right handed on a left handed kit. I improved a lot in that short amount of time compared to the previous months/years.

True.

But not sober and with intent.

The nut is grooved for right-handed strings.

You can't just turn it upside down.

If she plays righty, I don't have to buy a guitar. I have a half dozen of them.

Spanish Classical. She should learn to read music, it will help open doors later (playing piano, violin, etc)

Let her mess around with both left and right handed guitars and see what feels more comfortable. Some people are left handed but prefer a right handed guitar.