Two excerpts from Emmett's 1987 video "Hands Across the Board" where he talks about the musical possibilities of hie Free Hands two-handed tapping method, then performs Joaquin Rodrigo's "Spain." The instrument he's playing is a Grid®, a MIDI-equipped 10-string Stick, triggering synths on the melody strings. Emmett has always been a big advocate of pushing the technological envelope.

Two excerpts from Emmett's 1987 video "Hands Across the Board" where he talks about the musical possibilities of hie Free Hands two-handed tapping method, then performs Joaquin Rodrigo's "Spain." The instrument he's playing is a Grid®, a MIDI-equipped 10-string Stick, triggering synths on the melody strings. Emmett has always been a big advocate of pushing the technological envelope.

Emmett appeared as a "challenger" on this popular network celebrity quiz show on October 10, 1974. Watch as celebrities try to guess what the Chapman Stick is, and Emmett plays the first two-handed tapping song for a national TV audience on any instrument.

Emmett Chapman plays his solo composition on the Grid®, a Midi-equipped Chapman Stick, from his 1987 video "Hands Across the Board"

Don Schiff takes the new half fretless version of the NS/Stick for a spin. Video by Dan chapman

Images from Stick seminars all over the world. Music: "Hard Times" by Glenn Poorman, from the new 121normal CD, used with pemission ©2007 by Glenn Poorman

Don Schiff plays this medley of two originals at La Vé Lee in L.A.. Don plays the NS/Stick and sings, with Casey Arrillaga on djembe. From the Stick Night

From the Stick Night '99 Video. Here's Stick virtuoso Larry Tuttle playing an original composition entitled "Spanish Mice"

Greg Howard live at the World Stick Conference in San Jose, CA, 2003. From the untitled biography of Emmett Chapman by Dan Chapman

Excerpts from the new DVD of Emmett's live Tv performance on the Soundboard program in Los Angeles