The Warr Guitar is an American-made

touch guitar The touch guitar is a stringed instrument of the guitar family which has been designed to use a fretboard-tapping playing style. Touch guitars are meant to be touched or tapped, not strummed. History The touch or tapping technique was formally ...

, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard. It is related to the

Chapman Stick The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines ...

, another two-handed tapping instrument. The Warr guitar is designed for either two-handed tapping or strumming. Warr guitars have between seven and 14 strings. Perhaps the best known Warr guitar players are Trey Gunn, formerly of the progressive rock band

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, and

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of Behold... The Arctopus.

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Warr Guitars official website
{{Authority control Fretboard tapping instruments

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