The
Chapman Stick (
The 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 has been used on music recordings 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.