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Post subject: Fender Standard (Mexican) Bass - LEft handed
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:22 am
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It seems impossible to buy a Fender Standard (Mexican) precision bass in left hand - anyone know where to get a new one ?
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Post subject: Re: Fender Standard (Mexican) Bass - LEft handed
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:30 am
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I could have swore they made one a few years back. Maybe it was a Jazz Bass Deluxe MIM leftie though. I really seem to remember there being a leftie MIM bass for a few years atleast. However, I think it was sporadic and usually only one model. Don't quote me, I'm getting old and this could all be nonsense. In any event, I'd check Ebay or GC for used gear. To get one new you have to buy American and that's a big chunk of change.

MF has a leftie Mexi J bass...no P..sorry. :(

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Post subject: Re: Fender Standard (Mexican) Bass - LEft handed
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:23 am
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Gatekeeper101 wrote:
It seems impossible to buy a Fender Standard (Mexican) precision bass in left hand - anyone know where to get a new one ?
Thanks :(


I'm not sure when Fender discontinued the lefty MIM P's, but it's been fairly recently as I recall another post on this subject. Maybe it was no lefty Squire P's. Either way, they're both gone.

New American Standard, or used is the only way to go now. People complain about the cost of the American Standards, but look at what a G&L or Lakland cost. I'd love one of each but, $4,000 - $4,500 a piece is out of my reach.

Good luck in your search.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Standard (Mexican) Bass - LEft handed
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:24 pm
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It was recently that the southpaw Standard P-Bass was cut from the lineup. Switching production from one model to another, even from right-handed P's to left-handed P's, requires retooling which essentially stalls production. There seems to be enough demand to justify only one lefty Standard model so Fender chose the Jazz. They have marketing data to back up that choice I'm sure. I doubt they merely flipped a coin. It might have something to do with the J being slightly more expensive than a P and they need to maximize income from the production interruption while switching over to the left-handed model, but I can't say that for sure. The sales figures might have been lopsided with the left-handed J far outselling the leftie P.

Depending upon where you get your numbers, anywhere from 10% to 13% of people are naturally left-handed. Drexel University has a noted study that says 10% so I'd say that is a credible figure.

Of natural leftie players many choose to play guitar and electric bass right-handed (full blown rightie) instead for a number of reasons. B.B. King and Eric Clapton come to mind as two examples. This "lefties playing rightie syndrome" reduces the demand for left-handed instruments even further. The fact is that far less than 10% of guitar and bass players actually play a left-handed instrument. I've checked and found that only about 2% to 3% of the combined output of the two major guitar manufacturers in North America (Gibson & Fender) is left-handed instruments of any type. This obviously means that at least 7% of lefties just opted to play rightie or maybe some of them decided to play keys, drums or horns instead of guitar or electric bass.

There are other variations on left-handed play including reversing the string order as Dick Dale does. In some cultures left-handedness is considered undesirable or even "of the devil," so many more lefties are forced into doing everything right-handed. An example of that is Jimi Hendrix's father who is said to have pushed the junior Hendrix into playing a right-handed guitar in the conventional right-handed fashion. However, whenever the senior Hendrix wasn't around Jimi turned it upside down and the rest is music history.

If you think it is hard to find a left-handed bass, try finding a left handed mandolin, 5-string banjo or accordion.

'If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, then left-handed people are the only ones in their right mind!" (Author unknown)


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Post subject: Re: Fender Standard (Mexican) Bass - LEft handed
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:00 am
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I started out righty in 1970, and switched to lefty in 1976. I found out Fender made left handed Precisions once a year and had to order one sight unseen paid in full up front. I ordered in '75 and got the bass in '76. I traded in my '72 Precision and a red sparkle Kustom 200 bass amp with matching 2 X 15 cabinet. When my new Precision finally arrived, I bought a brand new Fender Bassman Ten to go with it - 50 all tube watts and four 10" speakers. It was a good sounding small combo for the time.

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