Author Topic: SC Lefty (Read 166 times)

olieoliver · « **on:** May 14, 2007, 07:34:27 AM »

This is a nice Bass. Kind of odd though. It's a lefty strung rigt handed.

tkotmk42 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2007, 07:53:19 AM »

And it looks to be 'standard' model.

olieoliver · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2007, 08:05:56 AM »

Yes it is a standard. Pretty good price though (is it stays there).
I wonder if the nut and bridge have been reversed too, I would think so.
Shouldn't be hard to change.

Nice top on it.

frank_orlando · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2007, 02:51:41 PM »

Hmmmm... LED's on a lefty strung righty...can a righty see them?

kimberly · « **Reply #4 on:** May 15, 2007, 04:21:13 PM »

Sweet. Just my style and how I wish I had the bucks for this bad boy. Wow...nice...

Frank - I have an lefty Epic strung right handed. I'm always happy to let people check him out and it's always interesting to see a right handed player work the neck without any visual clues. Depending on how well they do is usually a good indicator of how 'good' they are.

I wonder though with LED's on the 'bottom' of the neck for a right handed player, would one be able to see them illuminating their fretting hand? I suspect so, but have no experience. Next time I see a 'righty' with LED's I'll have to check that out.

Beautiful instrument.

Sighing and wishing she had the bucks.

Regards,

Kimberly

mica · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2007, 11:23:27 AM »

Since this bass was made as a lefty, I'm sure the LEDs are facing the player in left handed playing position. I'd guess about 10-20% of the left handed instruments we make are ordered with right handed stringing.

jlpicard · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2007, 10:14:29 PM »

As a lefty I can tell you that it is not uncommon to find lefties playing with right handed stringing. The reason for this is that most of the time the leftys first exposure to an instrument is most likely going to be a righty for obvious reasons. Many start learning to play upside down and when they finally get into the financial position to get their own instrument,they've already progressed too far on the instrument to want to go back to square one and relearn proper lefty stringing. Can't say that I blame them, however, I'm a bit militant when it comes to Lefty's having to adapt to a right handed world. I will never play a right handed bass upside down (although I can quite easily). The one exception that would tempt me to break that rule is a small standard series bass because of the symetrical body shape. And I will NEVER buy a black painted lefty bass! (I'd really like an ebony top Alembic though

keavin · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:52:04 AM »

Wamon tisdale is one example & our own kimberly (here in the club) are players of right handed basses played upsidedown,im sure there's a few more here too!

kimberly · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2007, 08:22:14 AM »

Hi Everyone.

You know I was tempted to give Olie a hard time about the kind of odd comment, but let it go. Hey Olie.

For myself, it's exactly as 'Jean Luke' describes. It took about two years for me to afford my, I kid you not, $20 no name 'Fender style P bass', that I made payments on. When I reached $17 worth of payments after several months the guy said it was mine. Trivia story in the life of Kimberly. Anyway, by the time I had my own instrument I had two years of 'playing around upside down'. When I switched to left handed orientation I was totally confused and almost immediately switched back to my familiar 'upside down' orientation. Needless to say I've never looked back.

Interesting stat from Mica about the 10-20% upside down lefty basses. Personally while I've seen a few upside down lefties on the web, in 'real life' I can only remember seeing one bassist and two guitarist(s) (sp?) playing upside down. Maybe times have changed and more 'fight' the right handed dominant world and march their own march. A 'lefties unite' thingy. Heheheheh...

Best Regards,

Kimberly

keavin · « **Reply #9 on:** May 26, 2007, 11:25:28 AM »

http://www.tisway.com/

kimberly · « **Reply #10 on:** May 26, 2007, 01:50:11 PM »

Suhweet!!!

Thanks Keavin!

Kimberly

0vid · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2007, 07:52:46 PM »

I play lefty and started on upside down lefty bass around 1977. Got into Louis Johnson and wanted to slap, I remember thinking this would be a major moment and I recall I had a long night, .... restrung my bass in the middle of the night and that was that. My logic was: You can't thumb slap bass upside down.

Much later, Jimmy Haslip of Yellowjackets surfaced and showed that you could 'slap' upside down.

I have no regrets though. And I can still play upside down bass or guitar at jams; though this one time at a jazz jam I had to do fast bop (200bpm) on a RH Fender....

Over the years I have seen as many upside down lefty players as I have seen true lefty players..... big name ones: The fablulous thunderbirds had a bassist who played upside down lefty and I think Keith Horne does as well.

David Houck · « **Reply #12 on:** June 05, 2007, 08:37:39 PM »

Thanks Keavin! I hadn't listened to any Tisdale lately. He does some nice things with effects.