Cascha HH2305L – the left-handed ukulele

After a short break I am back with another blog post, and I am also paying off an old debt: in more than 13 years of the blog, I have never discussed left-handed ukuleles. A left-handed colleague attended the spring courses and needed a left-handed ukulele. I did not have one in stock, so I obtained several left-handed examples of Cascha's black tenor model.

A left-handed ukulele is the mirror image of a right-handed one: everything is reversed compared with the usual right-handed setup. Unfortunately there is nowhere near as much choice for left-handed players, but in recent years more and more manufacturers have started serving left-handed needs “from the factory”. I put that in quotation marks because a right-handed ukulele can also be converted for left-handed use, although this may involve some inconvenience and extra expense for the buyer.

In the video below I show you this unusual black Cascha ukulele, decorated with an attractive amber tortoiseshell-pattern binding, and explain the most important things worth knowing about left-handed ukuleles. (Technology played a little trick on me because the microphone recording failed, so you will hear the original audio recorded by the phone.) Enjoy the video!