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What is the Chapman Stick used for?
A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures. Designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument, it can also cover several of these musical parts simultaneously.
Who plays a Chapman Stick?
Mark White is from Austin, Texas, USA and is a 'Chapman Stick' playing maestro. It wouldn't be at all surprising if you've never even heard of the 'Chapman Stick' as it's reported there's only around eight thousand of them in the entire World!
How was the Chapman Stick made?
Between 1969 and 1974, Emmett created the Chapman Stick - a ten-stringed fretboard, tuned in a uniform tuning, with the strings arranged in two groups of five to enable one hand to play the lower bass strings and the other hand to play the higher melody strings.
