Korgscrew
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Posted: Feb. 10 2003, 05:32 |
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You could do worse than look at the homepage of Stick Enterprises, the company who makes the Chapman Stick. It's one of a kind of instrument known as touch guitars - stringed instruments designed to be played by tapping the strings against the fretboard rather than plucking them. The method allows both hands to play on the fretboard, meaning that more piano-like playing is possible (for example, playing chords with one hand and a bassline with the other). It's possible to use two-handed tapping techniques on any guitar, but touch guitars are especially designed for it, and usually have more strings, to extend the range into the bass register (note also that on instruments like the stick, the bass strings are in the middle - it's tuned from high to low, then low to high, arranged to give a melody 'half' and a bass 'half' ). Another manufacturer of this kind of instrument is Warr Guitars.
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