{"id":22987,"date":"2015-08-09T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2015-08-08T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T03:09:35","slug":"christmas-with-a-chapman-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/christmas-with-a-chapman-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas with a Chapman Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on Facebook shared a video of a musician playing something called a Chapman Stick. I&#8217;m no musical dummy but I had never heard or seen anything like a Chapman stick before. As I watched the video I naturally wondered if any <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music had been done with this unusual instrument. Of course, it has been done &#8212; and you have to hear it and see it played:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clixd7PhCD8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That artist is Greg Hughes, by the way. And he&#8217;s pretty good. But we&#8217;re curious if there is more Chapman\/Christmas stuff out there &#8212; we&#8217;re intrigued. <\/p>\n<p>The Chapman Stick, as you can see, can play multiple parts unlike any other instrument out there. But it is not a guitar &#8212; it is an electrical touch instrument played with two hands, the notes are struck much like a hammer produces sound on a piano.  <\/p>\n<p>According to several sources the instrument has been around since the early 1970s &#8212; which makes me wonder why we haven&#8217;t seen or heard more of it in popular music. Perhaps it is tough to play. <\/p>\n<p>Curiosity got the better of me and I found this Youtube of Emmett Chapman himself demonstrating the instrument:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PvuiAobq2_Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on Facebook shared a video of a musician playing something called a Chapman Stick. I&#8217;m no musical dummy but I had never heard or seen anything like a Chapman stick before. As I watched the video I naturally wondered if any Christmas music had been done with this unusual instrument. Of course, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,15],"tags":[263,17],"class_list":["post-22987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-video","tag-chapman-stick","tag-christmas-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}