Thanks for spreading my music around Walter.

If I could hazard a guess about tapping on guitar vs. The Stick, familiarity would be my biggest guess, and the scale length (hence the Stick Guitar with double guitar tunings, etc)

Most of what I hear on tapping guitars that doesn't involve distortion sounds kind of "plinky" and the range is just too high for my ears, because with only six strings, thre's no overlapping zone for the right hand to occupy.

Guitar has a cultural mystique as well, something that is hard to transcend, even with the coolest instrument ever invented...