actually Iam starting to get on better with the fingerpick this very morning i spent an hour on the banjo,fraiuling dolwn with fingerpick 20 minutes,doing standard up picking without picks and 120 minutes on flat picking with a reverse bumditty,melody then up strum with flat pick,then down with top 5 string ,i had no problem stopping theup dit before i hit top string [even double thumbing equivalent wasnt too difficult]easier hitting top string up then still hitting g string down,its agreat way to improve flat picking.
then i do the same thing on guitar,for i have one of my guitars in dgdgbd.
but i still think left handed banjo would offer something different,i reckon with practise,you could stop the pick brefore you hit the short string,it doesnt seem to be difficultstoipping it on an up strum.Iam going to continue with conventioinal methods ,but i reckon the flat pick offers a little variety whether with a right handed banjo or aleft strung differently ,also a left handed banjo strung differently would give more options on thumb melody too.
an interesting point[melissa] was made about would it interfere with fretting the other string,wht are peoples views on that one,does it make a difference if the left handed banjo is strung differently?