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Chapman Stick
 Ten-stringed Chapman Stick | |
| String instrument | |
|---|---|
| Classification | String |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 (Composite chordophone) |
| Inventor(s) | Emmett Chapman |
| Developed | 1970s |
| Related instruments | |
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]
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.
- ^ Adelson, Steve (December 1, 2009). "Emmett Chapman and the Stick". Guitar Player. Vol. 44, no. 12. pp. 70–75. ISSN 0017-5463. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
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