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What's a good generic name for the Stick and similar instruments?
tap guitar 17%  17%  [ 7 ]
taptar 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
tiptar 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
tapstring 12%  12%  [ 5 ]
tapstring instrument 12%  12%  [ 5 ]
fretboard tapping instrument 34%  34%  [ 14 ]
string-tapping instrument 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
chordaphone 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
chapophone 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
tapboard 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
tapper 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
other (please post!) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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 What *kind* of instrument is the Stick? 
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Stringcussion instrument.

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It's an enlarged fretboard in the guitar family of instruments that you play by a particular form of two-handed tapping that I dubbed the "Free Hands" method. The instrument itself is known as a fretboard tapping instrument or FTI for short, also as a tap guitar and sometimes as just a "tapper".

"Stick" is the trademark, along with "The Stick" and "Chapman Stick", all separately registered in the US, Japan and the European Community of some 30 countries.

Coca-Cola is a trademark for a cola drink that long ago lost its "coca" ingredient. It's liability as a drug later became its major asset - cocaine as the primary "ingredient" in its trade name (no longer in the drink itself). The "cola" noun portion can be picked to pieces too, inappropriate as a trademark element because the drink contains actual cola (if I've gotten the recipe right). But of course they have a staff of lawyers to police and enforce what by now is an American tradition (something we fight for along with apple pie). My trademark lawyer tells me that "Drum" brand drums would have no standing as intellectual property.

"Stick brand stick" would of course have similar problems as a trademark. It's not generically a "stick" but if people call it a "Stick" or "The Stick", that's a sign of a successful trademark. (I drink my Coke, wear my Levis and drive my Chevy.) Coke is a carbonated drink, Levis are a pair of blue jeans, Chevy is a cool car, and as Rob said, Stick is a tap guitar.

I play my Stick using the Free Hands method on an unusually designed tap guitar with many strings, also known by other generic names including FTI. I hope this will help reconcile US trademark law with usages in the common language. 

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It's a Stick.

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rob5280 wrote:
It's a Stick.


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BSharp wrote:
It's an enlarged fretboard in the guitar family of instruments that you play by a particular form of two-handed tapping that I dubbed the "Free Hands" method.


Not too far off from what I and the other 'guitar family' advocates were saying :lol:

The rest of Emmett's post hits the nail on the head as far as this whole topic goes, imo.

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Look Mom!!.............both hands!! :o

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CrumbledFingers wrote:
In the future, when tapping instruments have been around for let's say 200 years, what will historians call them as a general type? For instance, in the guitar category there are lutes, mandolins, electric guitars, classical acoustic guitars, etc. what is the generally accepted name for instruments like the Stick, Warr Guitar, Megatar, Box Guitar, etc.? "Tapping instrument" is a mouthful. Someone long ago suggested "Tiptar," which, well... I guess we'll see if it catches on, but I don't particularly like it. I think it would be nice to have a name, though. Like, the Chapman Stick is a brand of _______, a type of guitar instrument played by yadda yadda yadda. Any suggestions?


http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textc/Chordophone.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordophone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs#Unclassified_idiophones_.2815.29

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/texth/Hornbostel-Sachs.html

Bassed on my findings in these links and other research (the old fashioned book kind), I believe the Hornbostel-Sachs systems of musical instrument classification (typically preferred by musicologists) would already classify the Chapman Stick and other string-tapping instruments as a struck chordophones.

Although perhaps they are hybrids (some more than others) of the struck and plucked chordophone groups.

They are (I believe) unique in their ability to bring vibrato and pitch bending to the struck group of chordophone instruments.

BTW what you referred to as the guitar category would be considered the plucked variety of chordophone.

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jeffcomas wrote:
BTW what you referred to the guitar guitar category would be considered the plucked variety of chordophone.



Correcto!

There's a larger category here.

Thanks for that, Jeff.

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Post Re: What *kind* of instrument is the Stick?
Just what everyone was hoping for, more possible generic terms for out type of instrument(s):
collideochord (strings initiate sound by collision)
flexichord (because this type of chordophone, can be struck, plucked, and even bowed)

I also like tapboard, tapstring, and FTI.

I own a Chapman Stick brand (insert generic/scientific name here) instrument. I use Freehands and other methods including Touch System and plucking (no bowing yet), to play it..

Flexichord :)



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*In deep voice....*
jeffcomas wrote:
digital impactochord
*echo...echo..echo*

*cue video of heavy-metal stick-shredding complete with monster trucks, speaker stacks, and hot women*






O.K., maybe not... ;)

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