Month: January 2018

  • The Chapman Stick

    ByTopher DeRosia

    The Chapman stick was invented in the 1970’s. It’s essentially the neck of a 10 stringed guitar. It’s intended to be hammered, strummed, or stroked with a bow, but it’s most times hammered. I’ve seen many hammer style guitar players, but with the chapman stick there are far more fingers available, so you get many…

  • The Hang

    ByTopher DeRosia

    Welcome to the inaugural post of Eclectic Jams! Here I’ll periodically be posting links to non-mainstream instruments or performances, as I find them. Our first instrument is one I just learned about this week, it’s called the Hang, though sometimes called a Hang Drum.  The name Hang comes from the Bernese German word for hand….