Has anyone tried to restring guitar?

Question:the other way?

put the high note strings on top
and lower on the bottom and play guitar like that?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: the other way?

put the high note strings on top
and lower on the bottom and play guitar like that?

Yes, Jimi Hendrix did it. He was left-handed, but used right-handed guitars turned upside-down and restrung because he believed for some reason that right-handed guitars were likely to be more well-made than left-handed ones of the same model. Contrary to what it says above, he didn't play upside-down guitars without restringing them first. If an album cover says different, we may assume he was just posing for a picture.

Paul McCartney did it too when he was just starting out as a guitar player, before he could afford to have left-handed guitars made for him.

If you are right-handed, I don't understand why you would want to play a right-handed guitar strung upside-down. For one thing, chord books are going to be completely useless to you.

However, Otis Rush is a left-handed blues guitarist who plays a right-handed guitar strung normally but upside-down. This is because he learned on his brother's guitar and the brother wouldn't let him restring it. I don't think it's made him sound all that unusual - he's just a great guitarist.

Consider this too - if you learn guitar on a guitar strung the wrong way, you will never be able to borrow anybody else's guitar if you lose or break your own. Standard tuning is standard tuning for a reason - it works. Stick to it.

kurt cobain of nirvana used to do that, thats how a left handed person can use a right handed persons guitar.

I never thought about it but i don't play mine that often

I've been playing left-handed guitar for forty years, so that's how I string my guitars, although I hold the guitar "backwards". Are you saying you're a lefty? If so, may I suggest you string the way you're suggesting and play the chords with your RIGHT hand and strum or pick with your LEFT hand. If you are using a standard right hand guitar, You might want to change the nut (holds the strings in grooves at the top) and the bridge, otherwise you might sound a little out of tune on some of the higher frets.

I have a right hand Ovation acoustic that I string lefty, and it holds to tune pretty well. Hope this helps.

Just a side note (no pun intended): Jimi Hendrix played lefty and he could play equally well on guitars strung for either left or right hand. Take a look at a few album covers and you'll see what I mean. Good luck!

Since I would guess you haven't been playing that long, let me give you some advice... PLAY LEFT HAND.... If you insist on playing right hand, then once you get good and you walk into a bar some night and brag about how well you can play... NOBODY in the band will have a right hand guitar to loan you.

OH and as for reversing the strings... that takes a Lutire.. because there is a LOT more to it than just swapping the strings over.

I've restrung strings for about thirty five years, but to explain it all to you here would be too much, I don't know it you have the ball type or the type that you have to tie in a knot, or another type. So go to this link, they show you how, up at top type in how to restring your guitar, and then a page comes up, and on the right the first one says how to restring your guitar.
http://wwwguitarnoise.com/
Hope this helps !!!!!!