**** LEO GOSSELIN **** *Grand Stick Soloist*: Home
Welcome to the official website of LEO GOSSELIN
Make yourself at home and explore my site at your hearts content.
Check out some of the sound bites available and the photo gallery. There are some photos of me and the Stick going back thirty years!
I've finally completed my new album titled "Lovestream" which includes some beautiful pieces , several of which were originally recorded by famous artists. The album includes "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton, "Desperado" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" by Elton John, Sting's "Fields Of Gold", "Have I Told You Lately" by Van Morrison, and "You Are Always On My Mind" by Willie Nelson.
There is also a Latin Style album in the planning stages which will probably feature Spanish, Argentinean, and Mexican pieces including tangos, folklore, and flamenco styles.
For those of you who would like to see or show some video footage of me playing my instrument, I have a station on You Tube called 'Tmuse 12' or do a search by typing in my name and pressing search. I will eventually have links set up on my links page.
I would also like to announce a new stereogram Art Book titled "UTU" created by my brother Marcel J. Gosselin who happens to be a nationally recognized artist in Canada. He is one of the very few artists in the world who use stereograhic techniques in two dimensional artwork. The cover of his book can be viewed on my gallery page and if you cross your eyes to view it, it will appear in 3-D !! If anyone is interested in a published review of his book please check out my 'News' page and if you go on my 'Links' page you can also connect to his own website where you can sample more of his wonderful 3-D artworks.
Again, thank you for visiting my website and enjoy.
Leo A. Gosselin
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.