Warr Guitar

Warr Guitar
12-string Warr 'Raptor' model (discontinued) with typical hands-crossed tuning.
String instrument
Classification String
Hornbostel–Sachs classification321.322
(Composite chordophone)
Inventor(s)Mark Warr
Developed1991
Related instruments
Musicians
Trey Gunn playing a Warr Guitar at Tampere Jazz Happening 2005

The Warr Guitar is an American-made touch guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard. Invented by Mark Warr, a musician from Thousand Oaks, California,[1][2] it is related to the Chapman Stick, 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.[3]

Perhaps the best known Warr guitar players are Trey Gunn, formerly of the progressive rock band King Crimson, and Colin Marston of Behold... The Arctopus.

  1. ^ "Gunning for Warr - Premier Guitar".
  2. ^ "Music, Entertainment & More".
  3. ^ "Gunning for Warr". Premier Guitars. April 14, 2008.