Happy Birthday, Emmett!

Sending lots of Birthday wishes to you, Emmett!! Hope it was a GRAND day!!! Lots of love too!!

All the best to you on your special day. I'm so fond of the community that has built itself up and around you, supporting your fine work and attention to detail.

Happy birthday Emmett, may there be cake and candles and all the rest.

Thank you for taking us all on this wonderful journey of learning. You’ve shared a thing of great joy.

Happy birthday EC!

Happiest of Birthday wishes to you Emmett!

Many thanks Steve, for posting my birthday theme and I'm grateful for everyone's good wishes.

So what does the future hold for us Stick practitioners / performers? Will such recreation entirely be taken over by video games or will the whole body and 3D surroundings hold their own?

The Stick is kind of a middle ground medium, abstract, neutral, portable, light touch, involving the smaller muscles. I Ilke to think of hands as an integral part of the brain and mind. Some sea mammals have much larger brains, anatomically better organized too, but (as I like to say) they have no hands. That means that even with impressive social organization they cannot build a civilization. Easy to say with hindsight but I feel the "spark" in the hands. What's well developed on the body physique is often accordingly mapped out on the brain.

So, I'm posing a cultural contest between the digital and the digital, one of these having been provided to you by nature and evolution. Let's hear it for the hands and all your individual hands creating individual string tapping styles. Older or damaged, they will still work musical miracles on your fretboard.

That is so cool, Emmett! Guitar sales in general are way up and the stringed instrument called Stick is digital and tactile in the digital world! I am "Older or damaged" in many ways but I still make "music to my ears" with the Stick. Getting my "out there", "out there" to the "cultural contest" is now possible with what is out there...