TOUCH GUITARS® – AN INTRODUCTION
Touch Guitar instruments are the culmination of Markus Reuter’s long experience with tapping instruments and his knowledge about the playing technique, combined with the guitar design expertise of initial builder Ed Reynolds and current builder Markus Kirchmayr.
Possessing eight or ten strings and covering a range of just over five octaves, Touch Guitars® are highly dynamic universal instruments. They function equally well in melodic or chordal roles and are more than capable of performing both functions simultaneously. Crucially, although Touch Guitars® are specifically designed for the polyphonic two-handed touchstyle approach (familiar from the work of Michael Hedges, Tony Levin, Eddie Van Halen, Stanley Jordan, Tosin Abasi, Trey Gunn and many others, including Markus himself) they are equally suitable for all other existing guitar, bass guitar and lute techniques – plectrum picking, fingerpicking, strumming, slapping and beyond.
Possessing eight or ten strings and covering a range of just over five octaves, Touch Guitars® are highly dynamic universal instruments. They function equally well in melodic or chordal roles and are more than capable of performing both functions simultaneously. Crucially, although Touch Guitars® are specifically designed for the polyphonic two-handed touchstyle approach (familiar from the work of Michael Hedges, Tony Levin, Eddie Van Halen, Stanley Jordan, Tosin Abasi, Trey Gunn and many others, including Markus himself) they are equally suitable for all other existing guitar, bass guitar and lute techniques – plectrum picking, fingerpicking, strumming, slapping and beyond.
In all cases, Touch Guitars® are hand-made to an excellent standard, offering extra construction options in terms of selectable woods and finishes directly chosen by each customer. They embody design and performance values handed down via a combination of great musical traditions and contemporary innovation. From first principles, they have been designed to eliminate dead spots, to balance perfectly in all playing positions, and to offer drastically improved ergonomics for the touchstyle player.
Touch Guitars® are the very finest instruments on which to explore both the touchstyle technique and the player’s own musicality. Now read on…
The Touch Guitars® company and its associated products are not affiliated with ‘Dave Bunker’s Touch Guitars’. Dave has been producing his own unique two-handed touch style/tapping instruments since 1955, current details of which can be located here.
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