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[Psycho Ward]

I’m new here and I really enjoy this site and my new SR5. I keep hearing great things about the Bongo from happy owners here. At first I thought it was ugly, and then it started growing on me, now I think it’s cool.

I suffer from a severe disability… I’m left handed.

I’ve made peace with my condition over the years and have made adjustments, like getting used to the tone knobs on my amp being reversed, the zippers on my gig bags being on the wrong side, stuff like that.

I’ll quit beating around the bush, you can tell me the truth, I can take it, there are no lefty Bongo’s… right?


Psycho

 

[Mobay45]

You are right. There are no lefty Bongos. Although I play the bass right handed, I am left handed too so I know where you're coming from. I always tell people that my golf handicap is that I play left handed. The only reason I play righty is that when I started playing, left hand basses were extremely rare. About the only ones available were a few of the manufacturer's top end models. Now you can find them in all price ranges. I've seen brand new left hand basses for as little as $120! Not one that I would want to play today, but they might be good for a starter bass.

 

[MingusBASS]

You could always flip a Bongo over and string it upside down like Jimmy Haslip would do at times. Just an Idea

Andrew

 

[LeftyLB]

You could always flip a Bongo over and string it upside down like Jimmy Haslip would do at times. Just an Idea

Andrew

"Beware the dark side", "Get behind me Satan"

DO NOT DO THIS - It only makes things worse for the rest of us who refuse to treat being left-handed as a handicap.

LEFT IS NOT WRONG, LEFT IS RIGHT!!!

 

[cgworkman]

LEFT IS RIGHT!!!

See?!? You're confused about it yourself...

 

[SteveB]

I do believe that left-handed Bongo's are in the master plan. They aren't available yet, and there may not be an established date, but they *do* plan to make them down the road.

If there is a rough time frame for availability, maybe Big Poppa will chime in. But I don't think it's been nailed down yet. My bass player is also a lefty who is interested in a Bongo. That's why I'm keeping my ears open on this subject.. apparently they don't have a left-handed computer so that he could do it himself.

 

[tkarter]

doesn't it take both right and left hands to play any bass?

tk

 

[Psycho Ward]

Well… the only way I can explain it would be for a right hander to pick up one of my lefties and try to play it. I guess it’s just how it feels to you, noting with my right hand feels more natural to me.

Psycho

 

[maddog]

Odd. I am left handed and I feel more comfortable fretting with my left hand. I always thought guitars and basses were backwards. Seems more logical to me that you'd want to fret with the more dexterous of the two hands.

Of course the "nuns" in little league forced me to learn to bat righthanded. I'm already tainted But I have a hellacious backhand in tennis

I'm sinister-handed and proud of it!

MD

 

[Psycho Ward]

Finding a great lefty bass is hard enough, but finding all the necessary accessories is a real pain and expensive! I have my music store special order left handed straps, lefty strings, lefty cables and so forth.

(But I’ll let you in on a little secret, right handed digital tuners work just fine, as do righty polishing cloths.)

Psycho

 

[Figjam]

Odd. I am left handed and I feel more comfortable fretting with my left hand. I always thought guitars and basses were backwards. Seems more logical to me that you'd want to fret with the more dexterous of the two hands.

Of course the "nuns" in little league forced me to learn to bat righthanded. I'm already tainted But I have a hellacious backhand in tennis

I'm sinister-handed and proud of it!

MD

It is a weird , isnt it? I can fret wayyy better with my left hand than my right and i am righty, and im guessing this is usually the case. I guess someone figured that out when they invented guitars.

 

[Mobay45]

Finding a great lefty bass is hard enough, but finding all the necessary accessories is a real pain and expensive! I have my music store special order left handed straps, lefty strings, lefty cables and so forth.

(But I’ll let you in on a little secret, right handed digital tuners work just fine, as do righty polishing cloths.)

Psycho

I know what you mean. My drummer is left handed and he has a really hard time finding left handed sticks.

 

[Dees]

I'm left handed too, but I play the bass right handed, which is a bit strange, but hey.

 

[bassmonkeee]

I know what you mean. My drummer is left handed and he has a really hard time finding left handed sticks.

Heh--my drummer played the SuperBowl when it was in Atlanta a couple of years ago. The only issue was that he had to use Phil Collin's drumkit. Unfortunately, Phil is left handed, and has his highhat, and everything else on the opposite side of the kit than every other drumkit in the world.

So, my buddy Doug had to play for the 70,000 in attendence, and the millions around the world watching on tv with a bass ackwards kit.

Good times.

 

[Mobay45]

I'm left handed too, but I play the bass right handed, which is a bit strange, but hey.

That's three of us. Any other lefties playing righty out there?

 

[tkarter]

I am left handed playing right. I don't really feel handicapped by using either of my hands however. I am old enough and been left handed long enough I conform to old left hand standards. Those being use your right hand when you do that!! LOL

tk

 

[muggsy]

That's three of us. Any other lefties playing righty out there?

Me too. After struggling for years with the lousy selection of left-handed golf clubs, when I started playing bass I decided to play righty from the beginning. At that point, it was no more awkward than it would have been to play lefty. Now, five years later, I've tried and owned a lot of great basses I would not have been able to enjoy if I started out lefty. It's always struck me as odd, though, because playing righty it seems you need more dexterity in your fretting (left) hand than in your right. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong....

 

[mike not fat]

That's three of us. Any other lefties playing righty out there?

+ 1.

Truthspeaking, I'm a bit both-sided : write with left hand, ma...b.te with the left one, taking my cup of coffee or ironing my shirts with right or left, but using scissors and plucking the Bong' with the left hand.

Any other question ?

MNF

 

[LeftyLB]

+ 1.

Truthspeaking, I'm a bit both-sided : write with left hand, ma...b.te with the left one, taking my cup of coffee or ironing my shirts with right or left, but using scissors and plucking the Bong' with the left hand.

Any other question ?

MNF

WAYYYYYYYYYYY, too much information thanks.

Yes, it is strange that the less dexterous hand is the one that has to fly around the neck, it's the same for righties too.

Anyway, the handicap is that once you have chosen, either by nature or nuture, to be a lefty you spend much of your time asking the same shop keepers why they still stock so few left handed basses and envying the righties with their unlimited stock to choose from.

But we have the solace that lefthanded people are way more intelligent due to the way their brains work!!!!

 

[muggsy]

Anyway, the handicap is that once you have chosen, either by nature or nurture, to be a lefty you spend much of your time asking the same shop keepers why they still stock so few left handed basses and envying the righties with their unlimited stock to choose from.

But we have the solace that lefthanded people are way more intelligent due to the way their brains work!!!!

Of course, we lefties who play right-handed have already demonstrated our superior intelligence by gaining access to the limitless selection of right-handed basses.