Re: [tuning] question about the chapman stick

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mikal haley wrote:

> any Stick players here? i have general questions. if you could just
> go on at length about how it's different from other stringed instruments,
> and how it's the same, what makes it cool, i would like to hear that. > i play
> acoustic guitar and basses...

Why not ask on a Stick list? Why not surf the net? WTF...

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "mikal haley" <chipsterthehipster@...>
wrote:
>
> any Stick players here? i have general questions. if you could just
> go on at length about how it's different from other stringed
instruments,
> and how it's the same, what makes it cool, i would like to hear
that. i play

There was a Stick player here who was reportedly working on a Stick to
be fretted with a microtuning (that's what this group is for, not
"dude, what tuning did that slide player use?" ;)). He's also into
barbershop quartet stuff. Unfortunately I forgot his name.

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Jose Garcia when he had his 7 limit 22-tone punk band in the early 80's was unable to get a Chapman stick from Chapman to refret. He refused to have his instrument done that way. I remember on this list someone who said they were going to, but i don't remember if it ever really happened. It would be a very good instrument for such a thing!
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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
>
> Jose Garcia when he had his 7 limit 22-tone punk band in the early 80's
> was unable to get a Chapman stick from Chapman to refret. He refused to
> have his instrument done that way. I remember on this list someone who

Emmett Chapman once told me he built a 19-tone Stick due to a customer
request.

It's best to speak to the man directly if you are a Stick customer and
want something like this done to your instrument.

glad to hear Chapman changed his ways. all one would have to do is get a fretless one and put on your own frets
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Kraig Grady
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The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

Kraig and the tuning list,

Somewhere around the late 1980's I was interested in
making a similar kind of adaptation to a Chapman
Stick. I wanted Mr. Chapman to sell me a Stick
without a fretboard so that I could adapt the
instrument to receive the magnetic Interchangeable
Fretboards that I had inherited from their inventor
Tom Stone. I had heard somewhere that someone had
taken a normal fixed-fretboard Stick and laid out the
frets in Just Intonation. To this day I don't know if
anyone actually made such a modification, or whether
it was nothing more than a rumor.

Anyway, I called Mr. Chapman's company and told one of
his employees what I wanted to do. I was told that he
had just left on a three week trip to Europe or
somewhere. When I called back a month later I was
told that he had been informed of my plan, that he
wasn't interested in such a scheme, and that, as they
say, was that.

Mark

--- Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com> wrote:

> Jose Garcia when he had his 7 limit 22-tone punk
> band in the early 80's
> was unable to get a Chapman stick from Chapman to
> refret. He refused to
> have his instrument done that way. I remember on
> this list someone who
> said they were going to, but i don't remember if it
> ever really
> happened. It would be a very good instrument for
> such a thing!
> --
> Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
> <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM
> Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
>
>

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I met Mr. Chapman in the late 80's in London at a stick demo, and suggested that he should produce a LucyTuned stick.

He commented that fewer that 12, rather than more than twelve frets per octave, might be more appropriate, and was decidedly unreceptive to having more frets per octave.

Charles Lucy lucy@lucytune.com

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On 22 Jun 2007, at 16:50, Mark Rankin wrote:

> Kraig and the tuning list,
>
> Somewhere around the late 1980's I was interested in
> making a similar kind of adaptation to a Chapman
> Stick. I wanted Mr. Chapman to sell me a Stick
> without a fretboard so that I could adapt the
> instrument to receive the magnetic Interchangeable
> Fretboards that I had inherited from their inventor
> Tom Stone. I had heard somewhere that someone had
> taken a normal fixed-fretboard Stick and laid out the
> frets in Just Intonation. To this day I don't know if
> anyone actually made such a modification, or whether
> it was nothing more than a rumor.
>
> Anyway, I called Mr. Chapman's company and told one of
> his employees what I wanted to do. I was told that he
> had just left on a three week trip to Europe or
> somewhere. When I called back a month later I was
> told that he had been informed of my plan, that he
> wasn't interested in such a scheme, and that, as they
> say, was that.
>
> Mark
>
> --- Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com> wrote:
>
> > Jose Garcia when he had his 7 limit 22-tone punk
> > band in the early 80's
> > was unable to get a Chapman stick from Chapman to
> > refret. He refused to
> > have his instrument done that way. I remember on
> > this list someone who
> > said they were going to, but i don't remember if it
> > ever really
> > happened. It would be a very good instrument for
> > such a thing!
> > --
> > Kraig Grady
> > North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
> > <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
> > The Wandering Medicine Show
> > KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM
> > Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
> >
> >
>
> __________________________________________________________
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> Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.
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I repeat: Talk to Emmett Chapman directly about this stuff. What he
will say today may or may not be the same as what he said in the
1980s, which is what Charles and Mark are reporting.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@...> wrote:
>
> I met Mr. Chapman in the late 80's in London at a stick demo, and
> suggested that he should produce a LucyTuned stick.
>
> He commented that fewer that 12, rather than more than twelve frets
> per octave, might be more appropriate, and was decidedly unreceptive
> to having more frets per octave.
>
> Charles Lucy lucy@...
>
> ----- Promoting global harmony through LucyTuning -----
>
> For information on LucyTuning go to: http://www.lucytune.com
>
> LucyTuned Lullabies (from around the world):
> http://www.lullabies.co.uk
>
> Skype user = lucytune
>
> http://www.myspace.com/lucytuning
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2007, at 16:50, Mark Rankin wrote:
>
> > Kraig and the tuning list,
> >
> > Somewhere around the late 1980's I was interested in
> > making a similar kind of adaptation to a Chapman
> > Stick. I wanted Mr. Chapman to sell me a Stick
> > without a fretboard so that I could adapt the
> > instrument to receive the magnetic Interchangeable
> > Fretboards that I had inherited from their inventor
> > Tom Stone. I had heard somewhere that someone had
> > taken a normal fixed-fretboard Stick and laid out the
> > frets in Just Intonation. To this day I don't know if
> > anyone actually made such a modification, or whether
> > it was nothing more than a rumor.
> >
> > Anyway, I called Mr. Chapman's company and told one of
> > his employees what I wanted to do. I was told that he
> > had just left on a three week trip to Europe or
> > somewhere. When I called back a month later I was
> > told that he had been informed of my plan, that he
> > wasn't interested in such a scheme, and that, as they
> > say, was that.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > --- Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Jose Garcia when he had his 7 limit 22-tone punk
> > > band in the early 80's
> > > was unable to get a Chapman stick from Chapman to
> > > refret. He refused to
> > > have his instrument done that way. I remember on
> > > this list someone who
> > > said they were going to, but i don't remember if it
> > > ever really
> > > happened. It would be a very good instrument for
> > > such a thing!
> > > --
> > > Kraig Grady
> > > North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
> > > <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
> > > The Wandering Medicine Show
> > > KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM
> > > Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
> > >
> > >
> >
> > __________________________________________________________
> > TV dinner still cooling?
> > Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.
> > http://tv.yahoo.com/
> >
> >
>

Is there some reason to insist people talk to Chapman that makes you think he changed his mind?
one could always just buy one and modify it afterwards
--
Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles