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Chapman Stick

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The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. [1]

107 relations: Acoustic guitar, Akın Ünver, All fifths tuning, All fourths tuning, Alphonso Johnson, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Animusic, Anthropomorphism, Bamboo, Bass (sound), Bass guitar, BassLab, Before These Crowded Streets, Blue Man Group, Bob Culbertson, Bruce Cockburn, Chyi Chin, Close to the Edge (song), Cynic (band), Dave Matthews Band, David Lynch, David Sylvian, Discipline (King Crimson album), Don Schiff, Dream Theater, Dune (film), Ebony, Electric guitar, Ellis, Beggs & Howard, Emmett Chapman, Free Hands, Fret, Glueleg, Gordian Knot (band), Graphite, Greg Howard (musician), Guillermo Cides, Guitar, Gurney Halleck, Hammer-on, Howard Jones (English musician), India, Iona (band), Ironwood, Jeff Pearce (American musician), John Myung, John Paul Jones (musician), Kajagoogoo, Keyboard instrument, King Crimson, ..., Lana Lane, Liquid Tension Experiment, Mahogany, Maple, Megatar, Melody, Microtonal music, Midnight Oil, Mike Oldfield, Millettia laurentii, Music sequencer, Musical instrument, National Endowment for the Arts, Ned Steinberger, Nick Beggs, Nik Kershaw, No Parlez, NS/Stick, Paige Haley, Parallel Galaxy, Patrick Stewart, Paul Young, Percussion instrument, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gifford, Phone connector (audio), Piano, Pickup (music technology), Pink Floyd, Pino Palladino, Polycarbonate, Pterocarpus, Rawlins Cross, Red Sails in the Sunset (album), Red Wanting Blue, Regular tuning, Relief (music), Robert Fripp, Rosewood, Santana (band), Sean Malone, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Stick Men (prog band), Sunday All Over the World, Tapping, Terry Burrows, Texture (music), The Songs of Distant Earth (album), Tony Levin, Trey Gunn, UKZ, Warr Guitar, Weather Report, What's My Line?, William Ackerman, Yes (band). Expand index (57 more) »

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Akın Ünver

Hamid Akın Ünver (born 1982) is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, specializing in energy politics, conflict psychology and radicalization sociology.

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All fifths tuning

Among guitar tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth.

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All fourths tuning

Among alternative tunings for the guitar, all-fourths tuning is a regular tuning.

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Alphonso Johnson

Alphonso Johnson (born February 2, 1951) is an American jazz bassist active since the early 1970s.

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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe were a progressive rock band active from 1988 to 1990 that comprised four past members of the English progressive rock band Yes.

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Animusic

Animusic, LLC is an American company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bass (sound)

Bass describes tones of low (also called "deep") frequency, pitch and range from 16-256 Hz (C0 to middle C4) and bass instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range C2-C4.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BassLab

The company BassLab produces stringed instruments, mainly basses and guitars, and also some versions of the Chapman Stick and a viola model for Ned Steinberger.

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Before These Crowded Streets

Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998.

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Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group is a performance art company formed in 1987, known worldwide for its various stage productions which typically incorporate many different categories of music and art, both popular and obscure, in their performances.

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Bob Culbertson

Bob Culbertson is an influential Chapman Stick player.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Chyi Chin

Chyi Chin (born January 12, 1960 in Taichung, Taiwan) is a Chinese singer and songwriter.

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Close to the Edge (song)

"Close to the Edge" is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their fifth studio album Close to the Edge (1972).

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Cynic (band)

Cynic is an American band.

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Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band, also known by the acronym DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991.

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David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer.

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David Sylvian

David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan.

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Discipline (King Crimson album)

Discipline is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 22 September 1981 by E.G. Records in the United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Don Schiff

Don Schiff (born November 9, 1955) is a bass guitar, Chapman Stick, NS/Stick, and bowed guitar player on recordings, TV, and film sessions.

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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Dune (film)

Dune is a 1984 American epic science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name.

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Ebony

Ebony is a dense black hardwood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros, which also contains the persimmons.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Ellis, Beggs & Howard

Ellis, Beggs & Howard (EBH) were an English music band operating between 1987 and 1990.

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Emmett Chapman

Emmett Chapman (born September 28, 1936) is an American jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of the Chapman Stick family of instruments.

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Free Hands

Free Hands is the name of Emmett Chapman's two-handed tapping method of parallel hands used on his Chapman Stick instrument, and on several other Stick-inspired instruments.

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Fret

A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.

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Glueleg

Glueleg was a Canadian alternative rock band that was formed in 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Gordian Knot (band)

Gordian Knot is an American rock band directed by bass guitarist Sean Malone.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Greg Howard (musician)

Greg Howard (born 1964) is a Chapman Stick player based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Guillermo Cides

The Stickista Guillermo Cides is an Argentinian musician recognized internationally for his concerts and CDs played with the Stick.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Gurney Halleck

Gurney Halleck is a fictional character in the ''Dune'' universe created by Frank Herbert.

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Hammer-on

A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.

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Howard Jones (English musician)

John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is a British singer, musician and songwriter.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Iona (band)

Iona is a progressive Celtic rock band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists David Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge.

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Ironwood

Ironwood is a common name for a large number of woods that have a reputation for hardness.

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Jeff Pearce (American musician)

Jeff Pearce is an Indiana-based ambient/new age musician.

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John Myung

John Ro Myung (born January 24, 1967) is an American bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater.

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John Paul Jones (musician)

John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.

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Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo are a British new wave band, best known for their hit single "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and the Top 10 in numerous other countries.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lana Lane

Lana Lane is a North American rock singer.

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Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) was an instrumental progressive metal band founded by Mike Portnoy, then Dream Theater's drummer, in 1997.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.

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Megatar

The Megatar is a stringed musical instrument designed to be played with two-handed tapping.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Microtonal music

Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard), Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman (bass guitar).

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer.

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Millettia laurentii

Millettia laurentii is a legume tree from Africa and native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Ned Steinberger

Ned Steinberger (b. Princeton, New Jersey, 1948) is an American creator of innovative musical instruments.

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Nick Beggs

Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961Larkin, Colin (1997) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music, Virgin Books,, p. 270-271) is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the chapman stick; he is a member of The Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson.

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Nik Kershaw

Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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No Parlez

No Parlez is the debut solo album by English singer Paul Young.

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NS/Stick

The NS/Stick is an 8 string tapping instrument designed by Emmett Chapman and Ned Steinberger.

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Paige Haley

Paige Haley (born May 10, 1966) is a musician and producer.

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Parallel Galaxy

Parallel Galaxy is the first solo album recorded by Emmett Chapman, playing Chapman Stick, and it was released in 1985 on Backyard Records.

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Peter Gifford

Peter Gifford (born 5 April 1955), sometimes known as "Giffo," is an Australian musician.

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Phone connector (audio)

A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pino Palladino

Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino (born 17 October 1957) is a Welsh bassist.

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Polycarbonate

Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures.

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Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae.

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Rawlins Cross

Rawlins Cross is a Canadian Celtic band that formed in 1988 in Atlantic Canada.

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Red Sails in the Sunset (album)

Red Sails in the Sunset is a rock album by Australian group Midnight Oil which was released in October 1984 under the Columbia Records label.

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Red Wanting Blue

Red Wanting Blue (also known as RWB) is a rock and roll band led by Scott Terry that formed in Athens, Ohio in 1996.

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Regular tuning

Among alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings.

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Relief (music)

Relief, or profile, refers to the amount of curvature in the fingerboard of a guitar or other similar stringed instrument.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.

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Rosewood

Rosewood refers to any of a number of richly hued timbers, often brownish with darker veining, but found in many different hues.

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Santana (band)

Santana is a Latin music and rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Sean Malone

Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick.

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Steve Hackett

Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and producer who gained prominence as the guitarist of the English progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977.

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Steven Wilson

Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the progressive rock genre.

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Stick Men (prog band)

Stick Men is a progressive rock band founded in 2007 by Pat Mastelotto, Tony Levin, and Michael Bernier.

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Sunday All Over the World

Sunday All Over the World were a British rock band.

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Tapping

Tapping is a guitar playing technique where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other.

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Terry Burrows

Terence Ashley Burrows is an English author, multi-instrumental musician, and producer based in London.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition, thus determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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The Songs of Distant Earth (album)

The Songs of Distant Earth is the 16th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1994 by Warner Music.

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Tony Levin

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Trey Gunn

Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.

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UKZ

UKZ is an international progressive rock band, that was formed in 2007 by keyboardist/violinist Eddie Jobson, who had played in UK.

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Warr Guitar

The Warr Guitar is an American-made "touch" guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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William Ackerman

William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_Stick

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