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Chapman Stick
Stringed instrument of the guitar family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. 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.[1]
Quick Facts String instrument, Classification ...
![]() Ten-stringed Chapman Stick | |
String instrument | |
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Classification | String |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 (Composite chordophone) |
Inventor(s) | Emmett Chapman |
Developed | 1970s |
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The Stick is available with passive or active pickup modules that are plugged into a separate instrument amplifier. With a special synthesizer pickup, it can be used to trigger synthesizers and send MIDI messages to electronic instruments.