Ever seen a lefty sousa?

[eli]

Blew my mind... emailed the seller just to verify that the photos aren't reversed, and he said nope, this is what it really looks like... hadn't heard of anyone ever making a southpaw.

http://cgi.ebay.com/H-M-White-Pre-King- ... dZViewItem

[windshieldbug]

Probably had a rank of them just behind the left-handed trombones...

[Bandmaster]

If it really is a "left handed" sousaphone, maybe that explains why there are no viewable dents in the horn. It wasn't used very much! So it should be in pretty good playing condition, if you can handle fingering it with your left hand?

[Donn]

Blew my mind... emailed the seller just to verify that the photos aren't revered, and he said nope, this is what it really looks like...

But then, in the Q&A someone asks if it's left handed, and he opines that it isn't. Maybe there are two sellers, each a mirror image of the other, and they take turns answering questions with contradictory answers?

[windshieldbug]

[Joe Baker]

This place sells left-handed drumsticks and maracas.


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Joe Baker, whose wife is wrong-handed.

[eli]

But then, in the Q&A someone asks if it's left handed, and he opines that it isn't. Maybe there are two sellers, each a mirror image of the other, and they take turns answering questions with contradictory answers?

I'm the "someone"... and then I asked him again to double-check, and he replied that it really does look like the photos... but apparently he hasn't posted that exchange yet.

[Chuck(G)]

You guys are all missing the obvious answer.

It's a right-handed sousaphone, all right, but designed to be played upside-down.

I'm glad to have cleared that up.

[windshieldbug]

It's a right-handed sousaphone, all right, but designed to be played upside-down

Or, maybe it's an asuosenohp designed to be heard upside-down!

Inquiring minds want to know!

[LoyalTubist]

A left handed (right shouldered) sousaphone doesn't seem logical to me. I grew up as the only right handed person in a completly left handed family. One of the problems lefties have is eating. You never want to have a lefty, if you are a righty, on your right side--you bang each other with your eating hand.

See, what I was thinking--in a marching band, if the tuba players are standing next to each other in a military formation, their bells are going to bang each other. A left handed tuba player showed me how to play a sousaphone left handed and it was done by putting the left hand over the side of the sousaphone (this guy only had one hand).

My guess is that the picture is a mirror image, but I would ask the seller first about it.