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Chapman Stick Technical Notes
A member of the guitar and bass family, the Stick introduced a full two-handed piano technique applied directly to strings. It has a longer natural sustain than guitar, and yet is extremely percussive, the drumming of the fingers executing sharp, staccato rhythms. It also has a strong and distinctive bass voice. And so, the technique of four major instruments - guitar, piano, bass, and drums - are brought together on this single Touchboard instrument.
The divided fingerboard combines the advantages of a double neck and a single neck into one extremely versatile instrument with endless combinations of note patterns, chordal voicing, polyrythms and fingering techniques. With this dual tuning concept of two fingerboards on one board, the hands can play independently, each hand relegated to its own string group, or interdependently with all eight fingers tapping interwoven patterns, and finger at any string.