If you’re looking for left-handed electric guitar, you already know that the selection is available isn’t as wide as that available to right-handed players. However, there’s still a big range to choose from, especially if you don’t mind doing a bit of detective work to hunt down the perfect left-handed guitar for you. Let’s take a look at where you can find electric guitars for left-handed players, both online and off.
1. Local Music Stores
For many people, the first port of call when shopping for a guitar is their local music store. If you’re lucky, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for, but don’t be too disappointed if you don’t. While general music shops do their best, they are necessarily limited in the amount of guitars they can stock, and of those, most will be regular right-hand guitars. Still, it’s always worth trying your local shops, because you just might find what you’re looking for and it doesn’t take much time to have a look.
2. Specialist Guitar Shops
You might have better luck finding the perfect left-handed guitar by shopping in a dedicated guitar store, particularly one which specialises in left-handed instruments. The problem here is that if you don’t live in an urban area, chances are there won’t be such a store in your area and you’ll have to travel (unless they do a mail order service). But if you can find one, stores of this type can be the best offline place to find many guitar models, particularly those which are relatively rare. Read the rest of this entry »
