"Keytar" for LEFT Hand

[Thunderthumbs73]

Maybe I missed seeing them somehow over all these years, but is there a "Keytar" with a LEFT-hand orientation???

I ask because, yes, I can certainly play keyboard with my right hand, and I am a bassist/keyboardist (both hands) in a band, but I'm ALWAYS the bassist no matter whether electric bass or keyboard bass, and I'd like to consider a "keytar" that is left hand-oriented so I can be just a bit more mobile onstage, and just play the bass parts I'm already playing with my left hand... on a mobility-freeing keyboard instrument that allows those parts to be played with the left hand.

But I see no "keytar" instruments that allow that.

Thank you for the consideration.

 

[MonetBass]

(Checks the date to make sure it's not April 1st....)

Nope, he's serious!

I suspect there is little demand for such a beast, so I doubt one was ever made.

 

[Gopherbassist]

I've never seen one. But I also don't think I've ever seen a keytar in person.

This thread makes me wonder how the little handly bit is usually connected internally. Could you chop it off and cludge together your own lefthanded keytar?

 

[Thunderthumbs73]

(Checks the date to make sure it's not April 1st....)

Nope, he's serious!

I suspect there is little demand for such a beast, so I doubt one was ever made.

I suspect you're correct, and I did not in fact miss a product that now or ever had existed in the marketplace.

 

[Thunderthumbs73]

I've never seen one. But I also don't think I've ever seen a keytar in person.

This thread makes me wonder how the little handly bit is usually connected internally. Could you chop it off and cludge together your own lefthanded keytar?

Yeah, I'm probably not making my own, and the orientation versus housing just doesn't work to change it. It would kinda be like taking a left handed bass routed body plank and making it right-handed- or vice-versa. But in this case it's dealing with relatively complicated electronic bits and plastic housing/casing instead of much more forgiving wood.

 

[Thunderthumbs73]

Well... I appreciate the views and replies. Thanks.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Why not just use a 25 key mini keyboard - either on a stand, or rig a strap?

 

[StyleOverShow]

Keytar is basically a piano and they are ambi.

 

[FilterFunk]

I'm guessing you want the part that sticks out and lets you control pitch bends and modulation to be on the other side so you play lefty and use your right hand to do pitch bends and mod stuff. It would be interesting to know if there is such a keytar, but I've only seen them with the stick-out part (I don't know the official name for it) on the left-hand side, like this one:

 

[Gopherbassist]

but I've only seen them with the stick-out part (I don't know the official name for it)

I went with "handly bit" and that has gone unchallenged so far. I think at this point it is official.

 

[FilterFunk]

I went with "handly bit" and that has gone unchallenged so far. I think at this point it is official.

Works for me!

 

[Rich Fiscus]

You could always just strap on a keyboard, like Edgar Winter.