stackyFACTSBeing left-handed in the musical world comes with a steep financial penalty. Because manufacturers produce them in such limited quantities, left-handed instruments carry massive markups. It is an unavoidable structural tax levied against roughly ten percent of the population simply because they strum from the opposite direction.
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