....... or maybe it's two chapman sticks lying on a stand!

You decide:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M1STez9l7Is&eurl=http:/

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqFJTHL5gg

Looking at the second video, maybe Emmett needs to get his patent out!

Holy... that's beautiful

It IS akin to the Stick, and I've tried to play it in that fashion at times :p
It does seem to approach technique et al from a whole different paradigm though.

I wonder what everyone else has to say?

They LOOK like Sticks but also look home made ... or perhaps modified. As far as patents go ... I "think" if someone doesn't try to market something and only use it themselves they don't violate the patent laws. I'm no lawyer, I COULD be mistaking.

I've invented a new instrument! you lay two pianos on their side and play one with each hand whilst standing up. I'm calling it a Dualano.

I find it funny to use ergonomics as an argument for this kind of approach. Having played keyboards for several years, I never felt as connected to an instrument as when I'm holding The Stick and grabbing the notes. It feels like it's a part of me.

I've experimented a bit with this kind of horizontal positioning, and even recommended the rotation of the fretboard away from the player to a guy who insisted that he had to have his instrument lying down for medical reasons, but the fact that you have to push "away" off-angle down to the fret is a problem, IMO.

Another re-inventor of the wheel...

I would call that the "Typewriter Technique".

I've fooled around with it a bit. Hard to get the power for a good bend playing that way.

I just don't see the advantage?

- David -