(from the CD Stick Street 2)
I played this piece on the Chapman Stick Guitar SG-12 and you can really hear how lovely the Wenge wood is colouring the tone. It took a year of daily playing to get the Wenge into what it sounds like in this recording. A luthier once told me that all good tonewoods do this from being exposed to the vibrations that come from playing the instrument. I also heard about a violin maker that use to put new built instruments in front of loud speakers for a week to achieve the same tonality, sparing musicians the need to first play it for a year before the magic unfolds. Anyway, if a Stick gets this good in just one year of playing I can imagine why those old Stradivarius instruments, from around the year 1700, are so expensive today. :-)
In total I have now recorded thirteen tracks for the upcoming "Stick Street #2" CD and that should do well. So no more Stick recordings for a while now.
