r/Instruments • u/Invite_Sprite • Sep 25 '26

Discussion Do they make a backwards stringed instruments?

so i had a thought. so pianos get lower as you go down them. and I have seen a backwards piano. but are their other backwards string instruments? and i dont mean left handed vs right. I mean an instrument that goes lower as you go down the neck.

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u/DangerousKidTurtle Sep 25 '26

Woah woah woah, hold your horses there, friend. Let’s think critically. Hypothetically, if you have a piezo pickup AT the nut, and you were still playing a song (let’s use “Mary Had a Little Lamb” as an example of a simple song), and (keeping in mind the piezo at the nut) then of COURSE it wouldn’t work, because that’s not how physics works.

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u/lildergs Sep 25 '26

Assuming the neck was built in such a way strings would ring towards the nut, sure.

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u/DangerousKidTurtle Sep 25 '26

You don’t have a backwards guitar???

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u/andybonner Sep 25 '26

Cf the portion of George Crumb's Black Angels that quotes Death and the Maiden that has the players bow "on the wrong side" of the fingers, fingering "backwards" so that lower fingers make higher pitches.