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diff --git a/posts/2009-07-01-chapman_stick.markdown b/posts/2009-07-01-chapman_stick.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d576b92 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2009-07-01-chapman_stick.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: The Chapman Stick® +date: 2009/07/01 +tags: music, chapman stick +--- + +The [Chapman Stick](http://stick.com) is a stringed instrument invented quite +some time ago by [Emmett Chapman](http://www.emmettchapman.net). It is a blank +slate equipped with a grid-like touchboard, two groups of stings and a powerful +pickup allowing the player to tap notes rather than requiring fretting and +strumming. + + + +I usually describe the Stick as being a guitar and a bass unified on one +fretboard, though I think that it is much more than that. It rather combines +the advantages of a piano over a traditionally stringed instument---such as +tonal range---with the advantages of the fretted instruments, i.e. direct fine +control over the sound through plain fingers on strings. More than that, it +even expands on these concepts and brings a number of [improvements and innovations](http://stick.com/instruments/tunings/12/classic_66). + +Check out the [official website](http://stick.com) to read more about what sets +apart the Stick from other tapping instruments. + +There's a documentary about Emmett and the Stick story in the make. You can +[see the trailer here](http://www.chapdoc.com/trailer.html). + +I've received my first Stick---a 12-stringed Grand---in July 2009 and have just +placed my order for an Alto Stick made from Indonesian Rosewood. |