Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!andrew From: andrew@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Kitty Hawk - (nf) Message-ID: <1112@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 23:48:28 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1112 Posted: Sun Mar 18 23:48:28 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:39:01 EST Lines: 20 #R:nsc:-76600:inmet:6600102:000:856 inmet!andrew Mar 17 16:19:00 1984 The Chapman Stick is a 10-string instrument which looks like a large guitar neck. The playing technique is best described by the following excerpt from an advertisement (Guitar Player, 7/83): "In a fundamentally new technique, two hands play independently and simultaneously, lightly tapping and holding strings against frets. Melody, bass, and chords all happen together as on keyboard, but with expression and sustain as on guitar, or with percussion as on drums." Further information is available from Stick Enterprises, 8320 Yucca Trail, Los Angeles, CA 90046. Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...harpo!inmet!andrew 733 Concord Ave. ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!andrew Cambridge, MA 02138 ...uw-beav!cornell!esquire!inmet!andrew (617) 661-1840 ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!andrew