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Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists!
| Steve Parkes | 31 Jul 00 - 03:55 AM | |
| SDShad | 31 Jul 00 - 09:37 AM | |
| Steve Parkes | 07 Aug 00 - 03:27 AM | |
| GUEST,Stew | 07 Aug 00 - 03:51 PM | |
| bob jr | 07 Aug 00 - 05:05 PM | |
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Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists!
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Subject: Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists! From: Steve Parkes Date: 31 Jul 00 - 03:55 AM Good news for all you Southpaws! Last week on UK tv (Channel 4, I think) I saw a kit to convert a right-hnded guitar to left-handed stringing. It's called SADDLE BOY and costs around £20. I don't know who makes it (except it's British), and I couldn't find it on the Net this morning, but no doubt someone can supply the necessary info? It was a documentary programme, not an ad. The kit cosists of a replacement bridge that sits on the guitar saddle with requiring major open-heart surgery on the instrument, so you don't reduce a £1000 Gibson to something between an Eko and a Martin Colletti, and (I think) a replacement nut. Obviously it doesn't alter the internal bracing, so I expect the instrument would sound a bit funny compared to a normal left-hander, but it does mean you can have any guitar in the shop, not just the two lefties. Steve |
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Subject: RE: Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists! From: SDShad Date: 31 Jul 00 - 09:37 AM Well, having restrung two cheap classical guitars to lefty without changing the nut, I'd say if the kit doesn't include a lefty nut, there's no point. Otherwise you have enormous intonation problems. Now I just play a lefty-built Ovation Folklore. Much better fit than restringing a righty. Chris |
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Subject: RE: Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists! From: Steve Parkes Date: 07 Aug 00 - 03:27 AM Refresh I don't care if you lefties follow this up or not - I'm normal, so it's no skin off my nose! |
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Subject: RE: Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists! From: GUEST,Stew Date: 07 Aug 00 - 03:51 PM May I suggest you do it the easy way! go to Elderly's in Lansing and pick any lefty guitar you want off the rack, Martins, Gretsch, Gibsons, Taylors... you name it. |
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Subject: RE: Attention LEFT-HANDED guitarists! From: bob jr Date: 07 Aug 00 - 05:05 PM or dustys in texas nothing but lefties convert to a rightie is nothing but trouble and by the way nothing abnormal about playing leftie unless you do it like dick dale |
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