Read the intriguing story of how the Stick developed, and the innovation of playing technique and instrument design spearheaded by Emmett Chapman, back in the days of yore.

In the Megatar section about Chapman Stick tunings, read about the Chapman Stick, Design and Development by Emmett Chapman.

Mobius Megatar salutes Emmett Chapman!

Although the Chapman Stick company offers some instruments with various numbers of strings, we’ll here compare instruments with the full twelve strings. We’ll therefore compare a standard Chapman Grand Stick with the simplest Mobius Megatar Touchstyle Guitar, the TrueTapper Eclipse.

You may be pleasantly surprised by the TrueTapper Eclipse, when compared feature by feature with the Chapman Grand Stick.

(In another article here you can compare two identical MP3 recordings of Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar instruments. Your eyes, your ears, your good sense, and your pocketbook will make it very clear.)

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Welcome to the News Articles here at the Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar comparison site.

More to Follow. Classified ads (free) coming soon, for folks buying and selling (any brand of) tapping instruments. Newsletter. Letters to the Editor. And articles of specific interest to anyone considering Mobius Megatar or Chapman Stick instruments.

That’s all for now. More to follow.

Over to you, Chet.

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