.Actualización #49 Nov' 2021
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La Portada : Emmett Chapman (1936-2021)

El pasado día 1 de noviembre falleció Emmet Chapman. Una triste noticia. Músico e inventor de un instrumento
singular. En 2019 el instrumento cumplió 50 años de existencia. El legado que deja tras de sí es enorme. 
A muchos músicos les cambió su percepción interpretativa. Hasta el punto que el Chapman Stick, en sus variantes
y evoluciones, se convirtió en instrumento principal e incluso una migración total. 
Gestar un instrumento desde un prototipo hasta una versión comercial requiere tiempo, fondos en principio a fondo
perdido ya que la amortización de la inversión no entra en la ecuación. Y sobre todo fe y constancia. 
Otro gran ejemplo puede ser Les Paul con el modelo de guitarra electrica de cuerpo sólido fabricado por Gibson.

A mediados de este año. Empecé una entrevista con él. Mediante el sistema "postal" de emails pregunta y respuesta.
Solo pude formularle dos preguntas. A causa de su estado de salud no fue posible continuar. Para mí era la
"entrevista madre" para conocer los detalles más técnicos del instrumento a traves del propio creador.


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Mr Emmett Chapman is the central person in the story of an instrument invented in the 1969.
Much has been written on the subject. From the official page to the brief summaries that appear on social
networks. I will not discover anything new. Just ... before the possibility when conducting an interview, I would
not want to be trivial and miss the opportunity to get to know this person better in his own words.
Given that the majority of users were born after the decade of the 80s (I suppose) it is very important to enter
the situation of the time where we started the interview
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During the 60s. Discarding the orthodoxy of the offers of the manufacturers of musical instruments. You as a guitarist.
Had you the concern for “beyond” of what did you could get with a guitar?
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Ironically, now, 51 years after my creation of the "free hands” technique on my 9-string guitar, my answer would have
to be the same as then in 1969, that is, free expressive melody with the right hand accompanied by left hand bass
with piano styled chordal voicings, all from one instrumentalist.
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From the prototype model to the first instrument on the market . Did you have knowledge as a luthier o "the specific
need invites you to invent"?
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I built my first elongated 9-string guitar out of a single piece of hard rock maple (neck and body together) around
1965 in the US Air Force wood shop at Omaha Nebraska. I had no experience as a luthier. In August 1969 I created
the “free hands” two-handed string tapping method on that instrument, then converted it over a couple of days for
very low tapping “action”, the double strap system, and added a damper to quiet down ringing of open strings.
The angle I always chose from first prototypes to today has been about 30 degrees. Some players like it closer to
20 and others to 45 degrees. It has a double strap system that I used around the first prototype with the oval guitar
body, one strap behind the back and the other over the left shoulder..
 


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