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New Stick Enterprises Website!

tomjones — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:15 +0000

As has been widely publicized, Emmett Chapman invented many new and interesting ways of doing business and playing music with the revolutionary two-handed tapping method, as it was developed by Emmett Chapman and called the Free Hands Method on his Stick Enterprises website.

And now, according to publicist Greg Howard in a recent post on the Stickwire mailing list, Stick Enterprises has put up a new web page called Learn-Chapman-Stick.

(New website content only incidentally similar to the Learn-Chapman-Stick website previously developed as a prototype by competitor Mobius Megatar, and the Chapman Stick organization is not affiliated with Mobius Megatar in any way. Spokesmen for Mobius Megatar affirmed there is currently no affiliation between these two companies — http://learn-chapman-stick.com)

According to Greg Howard, public relations director for Stick Enterprises, the purpose of the website to creatified a new location for links about learning the Free Hands method invented by Emmett Chapman, and using this method on the two-handed tapping instruments that are manufactured by Stick Enterprises of Woodland Hills, California.

According to Howard, he hopes to obtain cool apps from other people to give away, which will show fretboard layouts, and he will be very grateful for any contributions from the public.

“I’m also hoping,” said Howard, “to include a listing.” This listing would consist of musicians who are teaching private lessons. Howard asks that interested teachers contact him privately, and hopes that Stick Enterprises can make this new website as good a community resource as it can be.

Buy Used Chapman Stick for Sale? Two Places to Look.

tomjones — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Wanting to buy Chapman Stick or Warr instrument? Or a Megatar at a great price? Hoping to find a used Chapman Stick, or a Chapman Stick used only a little bit? Or maybe one of the used Warr Guitars?

Here are two places to look …

1st Place to Look:

Right here on the Comparison Website. Classified ads are mixed right in with the other articles, and you can place a ‘Want to Buy” classified ad of your own. It’s free!

2nd Place to Look:

The other place where you can find a Chapman Stick for sale is EBay. Sometimes you can make a Chapman Stick purchase (or Warr Guitars or Mobius Megatar) on EBay. Sometimes there are Chapman Sticks for sale there, and sometimes not.

Let’s see how your luck is holding today …

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Before you buy Chapman Stick, Get the Facts. Examine the Features.

tomjones — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:33:41 +0000

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.)


FEATURE DESCRIPTION	MOBIUS TRUETAPPER ECLIPSE	THE CHAPMAN GRAND STICK
6 Bass + 6 Melody Strings	Yes	Yes
Volume Knobs	Yes	Yes
Tone Controls	Yes	No
Dual Truss Rods	Yes	No
Through-Body String Anchoring for Tone	Yes	No
Tilt-back Head for Long Sustain	Yes	No
Adjustable String Saddles	Yes	Yes
Support Strap Included	Yes	Yes
Method Book(s) Included Free?	Yes	No
Output Cable Included Free?	Yes	No
Wide String Spacing for Ease of Play	Yes	No
Simple Fourths-Tuning Standard?	Yes	No
Buzz Feiten Intonation System Included?	Yes	No
Customize String Saddle Materials?	Yes	No
Customize Knobs, Straplocks, Bridgeplates?	Yes	No
Customize Tuners?	Yes	Yes
Customize: Choices of Pickups?	Yes	Yes
Customize: Active Pickups Available?	Yes	Yes
Customize: Bartolini Pickups Available?	Yes	No
Customize: Piezo pickups available?	Yes	No
Customize: Fanned-Frets Available?	Yes	No
Customize: Edgedots available for easy navigation?	Yes	No
Assembled to Your Specification? **	Yes	Yes

Typical Time for Assembly	2-6 weeks	5-9 months
Price?	$1600	$2500
Value?	Excellent	You Decide

** Orders placed direct with Mobius factory are custom-assembled to specification. However, pre-assembled Mobius instruments are often available for immediate shipment on the EBay Megatar Store.

Buenos Dias El Mundo! Bon Jour Le Monde! Well, uh, Howdy!

tomjones — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:27:58 +0000

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.