Touch guitar

[2] Webster credited pickup designer Harry DeArmond with first demonstrating the potential for touch-style playing.

[8] In 1960, Bunker first demonstrated his double-necked instrument for the Portland Oregonian newspaper,[9] and then on the nationally broadcast television show Ozark Jubilee.

[15] Other touch guitars have included the Solene, Chuck Soupios's dual-necked BiAxe[16] (patented in 1980 and produced during the early 1980s), and Sergio Santucci's TrebleBass.

Merle Travis occasionally used a tapping style[17] on his single-neck, strummed guitar, as did Roy Smeck, George Van Eps, Barney Kessel and Harvey Mandell.

[18] Subsequent years have seen Eddie Van Halen, Stanley Jordan, Steve Vai, Jeff Healey, Fred Frith, Hans Reichel, Elliott Sharp, and Markus Reuter all feature the use of tapping techniques.

Dave Bunker playing a double-neck touch guitar
Stanley Jordan playing a single-neck touch guitar