List of musicians who play left-handed

This is a list of notable musicians who play their instruments left-handed. (This does not include left-handed people who play right-handed, such as Noel Gallagher,Duane Allman, Billy Corgan, Dave Hill, Mark Knopfler, Barry Gibb, and Paul Simon.)

Left-handed people play guitar or electric bass in either one of the following four ways depending on the person: (1) play a right-handed guitar or bass right-handed, (2) play a true left-handed guitar or bass, (3) play a right-handed guitar or bass that has been altered to play left-handed, or (4) turn a right-handed guitar or bass upside down, pick with the left hand, but leave the strings as they were – which makes them reversed from the normal order for a left-handed player. (The fingering is the same for methods 2 and 3.) Any style of picking with the left hand (flatpicking or fingerstyle guitar) is considered playing left-handed.

Tony Iommi's guitar, a custom-made Gibson SG

Jimi Hendrix's Les Paul Custom - a right-handed guitar with the strings reversed for playing left-handed

A left-handed Martin D-28. The internal and external construction is the mirror image of a right-handed guitar.

Guitarists in this category pick with their left hand and have the strings in the conventional order for a left-handed player (i.e. the low string on the top side of the neck). They either have true left-handed guitars or have right-handed guitars altered so the strings are correct for a left-handed player. Some guitarists in this category (e.g. Paul McCartney) play both genuine left-handed instruments and right-handed instruments altered for left-handed playing.

Changing the strings on a right-handed guitar involves several things. The nut of the guitar has to be changed to accommodate the string widths. The bridge needs to be changed to make the lower strings longer than the top strings for correct intonation. On almost all acoustic guitars the bracing is non-symmetrical. On electric guitars altered this way, the controls will be backwards.

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