Welcome to the Stick Enterprises homepage. Our designs are based on the revolutionary two-handed tapping method of parallel hands discovered by Emmett Chapman on guitar in 1969 and taught since then to players around the world.

With Emmett's Free Hands method, both of your hands are equal partners. As they approach the fretboard from opposite sides, your fingers line up parallel to the frets and a powerful new musical language emerges - bass lines, lead melodies, chords, and rhythm, simultaneously, and in any combination you desire.

Today thousands of musicians are making their own music with our Stick, Grand Stick, Stick Bass and NS/Stick fretboard tapping instruments. Emmett continues to expand on his original concepts by adding to the variety of Stick models, features and tunings - defining the state of the art in tapping instruments.

The Stick comes from the guitar and bass, but its playing method shares roots with keyboards and drums as well, placing all of these musical voices in the hands of one musician. The Stick is unique, expansive, versatile, like each of its players. It is a blank slate upon which to "tap your potential."







Steve Adelson
New York jazz musician, band leader,
and Stick guru, talks about his musical
roots, tapping concepts and upcoming projects.
Feature, Videos and Interview

Steve at the 2006
National Stick Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
© Timothy R. Mills used with permission


NEW MODEL: 12-string Stick Guitar™ (SG12) guitar scale Touchboard

New Penetrating dyes and stains for the NS/Stick

New "Turquoise" Recon Stone turquoise colored dot and linear inlays

New Laminated Bamboo Sticks: lighter in weight and more rigid than hardwoods, available in light and dark natural finishes

Half fretless NS/Stick

10-string guitar-scale Alto Stick™

New Stick Dual Bass Reciprocal™ tuning for bassists.

Ten String Grand™ — 10 strings with wider string spacing

New bass pattern inlay option for the 8-string Stick Bass® (SB8™)

Linear fretboard markers option on all 8, 10, and 12-string models

PASV-4™ passive quad pickup module by Villex

Rails™ stainless steel precision tapping frets

Flaps™ Dual Nut Unit


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