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Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
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LeftyChris
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Joined: Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:50 pm Posts: 45 Location: Southern California
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Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
I’m curious if there are other left-handed Stick players out there-? I mean people who play left-handed, not lefties who play right-handed.
I was a left-handed guitar player for decades and had already been tapping with both hands for several years before I first picked up a Stick about two years ago, so I was already accustomed to my left hand being the “melody hand.” Hence, I play Stick left-handed.
Anyway, just wondering how many other lefties there are out there. Did you buy a left-handed Stick from SE or did you (or SE) convert a right-handed Stick to play it lefty? I have never seen a left-handed Stick for sale on the used market, so it seems that they are rather unusual.
SE’s policy of both making left-handed Sticks and converting right-handed Sticks to left-handed is really fantastic, and opened up the world of Stick playing for me. In my case, I have both: SE made a left-handed Railboard for me, and Emmett and Grace converted a 1983 Ironwood Stick I bought used to left-handed for me. I love both.
Cheers!
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Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:33 pm |
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Yannick
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Joined: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:17 pm Posts: 228 Location: Nantes, France
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
I know a german Swiss: Andre Mueller https://www.facebook.com/andre.mueller.18and also a British guy: Rob Thorpe https://www.facebook.com/StickistRobBoth have left-handed Stick. I don’t know if they are on Stickist.com but I think you can contact them on FB...
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:13 am |
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LeftyChris
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Joined: Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:50 pm Posts: 45 Location: Southern California
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
Thanks! That already triples the number of lefty stickists that I was previously aware of, aside from myself: one. There's a guy in Israel who posted pictures of his very nice looking lefty Stick online somewhere, though now I can’t remember where I saw them. I don’t know if he’s on Stickist, though.
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:39 am |
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Boaz
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:08 pm Posts: 1573 Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
Chen Gershoni is the guy from Israel he has a grand stick - not sure if he flipped the strings or just attached the strap to the other side. the picture of him here may help you : http://www.musicbrothersrecords.com/ire ... raelh.html
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#7159, Grand Railboard,Plum, RMR tuning, MIDI melody. Manufactured Dec. 2018
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:40 am |
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sagehalo
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Joined: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:38 pm Posts: 681 Location: Cary, NC
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
I am left-handed. I play bass guitar left-handed. I also play piano. When I met Greg Howard in Charlottesville, I specifically asked about L/R Sticking. He pointed out to me that as a piano player, I would probably be more comfortable with the left hand playing the lower notes. Also, with my right hand used to being the neck hand, it would be faster on the melody side. Being one to heed the wisdom of experts, I got a standard Stick and like it as it comes.
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:07 am |
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LeftyChris
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Joined: Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:50 pm Posts: 45 Location: Southern California
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
Thanks! Yes, he’s the guy I remember seeing online - I was so excited when I first found some photos of his Stick. I can’t tell if his Stick was originally made left-handed or not because I can’t see the pickup block configuration. The pickups on wooden Sticks that Emmet originally makes to be left-handed slant the other way - the same way as they do on (all) Railboard models, actually, since he flipped the block around for the Railboard. Gershuni’s strings appear to be set up for the left-handed version of a standard 4ths melody/inverted 5ths bass tuning - it looks exactly the way the strings do on my Sticks and I use raised matched reciprocal: the thick strings ascend from the middle in the opposite direction as they do on a right-handed Stick.
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Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:17 pm |
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LeftyChris
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Joined: Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:50 pm Posts: 45 Location: Southern California
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Re: Any Left-handed Stickists out there?
sagehalo wrote: I am left-handed. I play bass guitar left-handed. I also play piano. When I met Greg Howard in Charlottesville, I specifically asked about L/R Sticking. He pointed out to me that as a piano player, I would probably be more comfortable with the left hand playing the lower notes. Also, with my right hand used to being the neck hand, it would be faster on the melody side. Being one to heed the wisdom of experts, I got a standard Stick and like it as it comes. Emmett actually made the same point to me when I picked up my Railboard at his house and I told him that I am also a keyboardist. It is certainly a good and reasonable argument, and if I had not already been tapping for some time, I likely would have heeded his advice, since he is the inventor of the instrument, after all. But in my case, I had already been tapping with both hands (and all eight fingers) on my left-handed guitars for some years, so my left hand was already accustomed to being the tapping melody hand on the fretboard and my right hand was accustomed to being the bass and chords hand. On keyboard instruments, of course, it’s the opposite for me as it is for everyone else. I suppose I’ve therefore been giving my brain a bit of a workout by doing this back and forth business.
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