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I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.

That's interesting. I just researched this a little online and found this post about left handed guitar players on a music forum:

It strikes me there at least four varieties of left-handers:

1. Those who play a right-handed guitar, just flipped over and unchanged. Ie, with strings and controls reversed (bass strings on bottom, controls on top).
Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramall, Elizabeth Cotten, Eric Gales, Jimi Goodwin, Gruff Rhys, Dave Wakeling, Bill Jennings (AFAIK), Bobby Womack, Bob Geldof, Karl Wallinger

2. Those who play a left-handed guitar - with the controls on the bottom as normal, but the strings reversed.
Dick Dale, Rusty Burns, Jimmy Haslip, Uffe Steen

3. Those who play a LH guitar, but string it normally. Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, Elliot Easton.... orthodox left-handers. (Of no interest to this thread, I'm guessing.)

4. Those who play a RH guitar flipped over, but strung normally (bass strings uppermost). Jimi Hendrix. Anyone know any more who play this way?

Intriguingly, B B King (in a radio talk on youtube) remembers meeting Hendrix when he was with Little Richard, and seems to suggest he had his guitar strung in reverse then. He noticed he was playing a RH guitar left-handed and says he asked him "why didn't you change the strings?", and that Hendrix replied that was just the way he learned. However, a pic of Hendrix with Little Richard clearly shows his guitar (a flipped RH Fender Jaguar) strung as normal (bass strings on top).
 

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index....wn.975819/


I also read another bit about Maybelle Carter, who played the guitar right handed, but played the melody with her thumb: