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Originally Posted by daveT
I was testing out this thing at SW Edu:
http://jamstik.com/
I complained about not having a lefty version and someone was standing next to me saying he played lefty as well. The sales guy told me about this place, in Houston. I plan to make the pilgrimage one day now:
https://www.southpawguitars.com/
I have 2 guitars from Southpaw. It's a neat (little) store. One is a Joe Pass model of the epiphone hollow body, the other is a fender strat. Having a dedicated left hand guitar was one of the best things about becoming a grown up - before that I played self-modified right hand guitars and it was never quite right.
I have never had my hands on a jamstick but I don't understand why it couldn't be left handed just via programming?
I have a midi pickup on the fender, and an Axon midi processor for it. I've written a lot of software for it over the years. I fiddled with a left-to-right converter and it works to a point. I can hand someone my guitar and switch it from left to right and they can play it like that - but there's a mental disconnect most people have, like how it's hard to talk when you hear your own echo. They can dimly hear the strings directly and it doesn't sound right, so even though the "main" sound coming out of the amp sounds fine, they get tripped up.
I once considered going to an extreme and putting light guage strings in every string position. I think that could actually be pretty interesting but I never tried it. (You can tell the processor what the root note of each string is, so there's no need to have a specific set tuning to start)