Chapman Stick: Difference between revisions
From Allan Holdsworth Information Center
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
AH: Emmett (Chapman) built me some custom Sticks that didn’t have bass strings. There were two sets of strings, one tuned in 4ths and the other set in 5ths. It was like two guitars on one neck. He also loaned me a 3/4 size Stick that I wish I still had. I still own a regular size Stick with no bass strings. I like the instrument because of the string length. When yo do the tapping thing in the guitar the sound seems puny because the string is so short. I don’t really play the Stick much anymore or acoustic guitar for that matter, after the Synthaxe entered the scene. | AH: Emmett (Chapman) built me some custom Sticks that didn’t have bass strings. There were two sets of strings, one tuned in 4ths and the other set in 5ths. It was like two guitars on one neck. He also loaned me a 3/4 size Stick that I wish I still had. I still own a regular size Stick with no bass strings. I like the instrument because of the string length. When yo do the tapping thing in the guitar the sound seems puny because the string is so short. I don’t really play the Stick much anymore or acoustic guitar for that matter, after the Synthaxe entered the scene. | ||
[[Category:Guitars]] | [[Category:Guitars]] | ||
==Interview with Emmett Chapman (Music Technology 1987)== | |||
"I make custom tunings for people if they don't like the fifths in the bass or the fourths in the melody, and if they want a single sequencer string or if they want two bass groupings, I can provide those, too. I've made some fretless instruments, a lot of lefties... he pauses for breath. "Allan Holdsworth even has a guitar and violin grouping because he didn't want to play any bass strings at all." | |||
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/stick-to-this/1045 | |||
