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The White Whale
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Here's the new instrument of the future: (feel free to argue with me about this)

http://www.stick.com

There are some sample videos here:

http://www.stick.com/method/

so you can see the stick in action.

I know that the Blue Man Group uses the Chapman Stick in their newest CD/Tour The Complex.

I would love to try them out, the only problem is that it costs $1400+ new and $1000+ used, and me being not rich, I can only watch the videos...

[Cool]

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mr_porteiro_head
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It looks very interesting. On weird think about how he plays it though -- why does he play the lower strings with his left hand and the higher strings with hir right hand? He has to reach across the entire neck in order to be able to do that. It seems that it would be easier to do it the other way?

Maybe he does that because he started out as a keyboard player, and in his brain, left hand == low and right hand == high. If that's the case, maybe it would make sense to string it in reverse, like a left-handed guitar?

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