on a right-handed guitar, since they had learned to play that way. Notable players Amber Bain (The Japanese House) Babyface Dywane Thomas Jr. Cormac Battle (Kerbdog) Buddy Miles Wallis Bird Doyle Bramhall II Chase Bryant Glen Burtnik (Styx/solo) Eddy Clearwater Junior Campbell Michael Card Jimmy Cliff Elizabeth Cotten Andrew Cox (The Fauves) Dick Dale Ed Deane Cheick Hamala Diabate (RH instruments with original stringing and custom LH instruments with backwards stringing) also banjo and ngoni Lefty Dizz Eric Gales (naturally right-handed, but plays left-handed. His left-handed brother taught him that way.) Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats) Jimi Goodwin (Doves) Ed Harcourt Benn Jordan Jacek Kaczmarski Andy Kerr Albert King Little Jimmy King Peter LeMarc Anika Moa Barry Winslow (The Royal Guardsmen) Morgan Coco Montoya Malina Moye Mic Murphy, (The System) Kurt Nilsen (Winner of the World Idol competition after winning the first season of the Norwegian Idol series) Paul Raymond Nicolas Reyes Gruff Rhys Kris Roe (The Ataris) Jim Rooney Doctor Isaiah Ross Otis Rush Graham Russell (Air Supply) Lætitia Sadier (McCarthy, Monade, Stereolab) Evie Sands Seal Dan Seals Bill Staines Dan Swanö (Bloodbath, Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Ribspreader; plays drums right-handed) Wayman Tisdale Dave Wakeling (The English Beat, General Public) (right-handed, but learned to play left-handed) Karl Wallinger (World Party) Bobby Womack Melvin Williams Unclassified left-handed players Michael Angelo Batio (plays a double-guitar ambidextrously) Shirlie Holliman (Pepsi & Shirlie) Jon Oliva Peter Plate (Rosenstolz) Emily Robins (The Elephant Princess) Arif Sağ (plays bağlama left-handed) John Schumann Lari White Wendy Wild Mick Flannery Bassists Jarkko Ahola (Teräsbetoni/Northern Kings/Raskasta Joulua/solo; plays both guitar and bass with strings backwards) Martin Eric Ain (Celtic Frost) Rosemary Butler (Formerly Birtha; now backing and solo vocalist) Gerald Casale (Devo; plays strings backwards) Ken Casey (Dropkick Murphys) Stuart Chatwood (The Tea Party) Flavio Cianciarulo (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs/De la tierra/solo) plays with strings in correct order, both guitar and bass. Nick Feldman (Wang Chung) Gary Fletcher (The Blues Band) plays bass upside down Kathy Foster (The Thermals) Keith Ferguson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) Ed Gagliardi (Foreigner; naturally right-handed, played left-handed) Jimi Goodwin (Doves; plays both guitar and bass with strings backwards) Karl Green (Herman's Hermits) Paul Gray (Slipknot) Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets; plays with strings reversed) Colin Hodgkinson (Back Door, Whitesnake) Lee Jackson (The Nice) Joe Long (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) Alan Longmuir (Bay City Rollers; plays both guitar and bass with strings reversed) Paul McCartney (The