"The Chapman Stick is a unique electric string instrument. Instead of being plucked like a guitar, the act of fretting a note causes it to play. This means that you can play notes with both hands allowing you to play a much fuller arrangement. Emmett Chapman created this technique on a self-built guitar in the late 1960s. In subsequent years he created The Stick as the ultimate instrument for tapping technique."
EMMET CHAPMAN, inventor of The Stick
www.stick.com

"The Stick allows you to play two parts simultaneously, like a keyboardist, but with all the expressiveness of a stringed instrument."
GREG HOWARD, Stick player and composer
www.greghoward.com