So it's possible that a different guitar, possibly even Paul on his Casino, is playing along. However, the riff is double-tracked, and I think "Day Tripper" pre-dates the tape-machine "automatic double tracking" invented by the Abbey Road engineers (I think that was first used for the Revolver sessions). No one seems to really know (I wonder if anyone's asked Paul!), but the best guess seems to be that George is playing the main riff on either a Gretsch Tennessean or a Gibson ES-345 (both of which he is known to have used in the studio at around that time) while John plays rhythm chords on his Rickenbacker 325 and Paul plays his Hofner bass. I've searched for information on what guitars were used on "Day Tripper". So it seems to me that you'd have to do more than just re-string it to play it right-handed again. At minimum, I think this would involve replacing the nut to put the wider grooves for the wound strings on top. Well, when I say "left-handed Casino", I mean a standard Casino (I don't think they made left-handed ones, and in any case Paul's was originally right-handed) modified for a left-handed player.
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