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biometricks
06-18-2005, 06:37 PM
Judging by these folks, maybe...
http://www.stick.com/instruments/

http://www.stick.com/instruments/grand/grand.jpg
shat
06-18-2005, 09:14 PM
Not only are the people gay but they're stupid....a $2k+ price tag!
Ballbuster1
06-18-2005, 09:20 PM
Not only are the people gay but they're stupid....a $2k+ price tag!Holy shit ! I just saw that. Way too much money.
Mike H
06-18-2005, 10:21 PM
An instrument is not about how it looks, but how it sounds when it is played. I don't see how there is anything "gay" about the instrument.
PrncssNikki
06-18-2005, 10:42 PM
An instrument is not about how it looks, but how it sounds when it is played. I don't see how there is anything "gay" about the instrument.

What about the keytar?
Mike H
06-18-2005, 11:10 PM
What about the keytar?

OK, you got me there!!! :)

But seriously, I still stand by my previous post. Close your eyes and listen to the instrument being played. That is really what it is about. I say this, knowing of the existence of the drumitar, an instrument that I hate beyond words, but I still believe it.
Bone Dry
06-19-2005, 02:09 AM
Anyone else take a tour of "Stick Enterprises"? I don't know if the instrument is gay but this fucking dog is...
http://img133.echo.cx/img133/4025/slide115wk.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
What’s the advantage of the Stick anyway?
Mother Shucker
06-19-2005, 07:51 PM
I knew a guy who played the skin flute, I think that was gay.
MikeTheTeacher
06-20-2005, 05:23 PM
What’s the advantage of the Stick anyway?

It's a whole different instrument, really. The Chapman Stick is a 'Tapping' Instrument, to get a note you just tap the string onto the fret; more of a hammer-on, technically. No picking involved, so both hands can be fretting the neck; so skilled guys can be playing a bass riff with one hand and laying a lead over it with the other.

It does indeed look utterly uncool in that pic, especially that neck thing, so Mark Warr started Warr Guitar and started putting out tapping instruments that are worn like a guitar:

http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/warr1

This has 8 strings, from a low B, up fourths across the neck, so thats a five or six octave range, and it can move furniture when hooked up to whats behind it.