Chapman Stick

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
	Warr Guitar; Touch guitar; Megatar;

A street musician in Japan playing a Chapman Stick in 2023

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.

[gpadelson-1] 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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