May
18
Before you buy Chapman Stick, Get the Facts. Examine the Features.
Filed Under All, Buzz Feiten, Chapman Stick, Eclipse, Electric Bass, Fanned-Frets, Grand Stick, Guitar, Mobius Megatar, Musical Instrument, Sound Recordings, Tone, Tone Controls, TrueTapper, classified ads
Although the Chapman Stick company offers some instruments with various numbers of strings, we’ll here compare instruments with the full twelve strings. We’ll therefore compare a standard Chapman Grand Stick with the simplest Mobius Megatar Touchstyle Guitar, the TrueTapper Eclipse.
You may be pleasantly surprised by the TrueTapper Eclipse, when compared feature by feature with the Chapman Grand Stick.
(In another article here you can compare two identical MP3 recordings of Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar instruments. Your eyes, your ears, your good sense, and your pocketbook will make it very clear.)
| FEATURE DESCRIPTION |
MOBIUS TRUETAPPER ECLIPSE |
THE CHAPMAN GRAND STICK |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Bass + 6 Melody Strings |
Yes |
Yes |
| Volume Knobs |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tone Controls |
Yes |
No |
| Dual Truss Rods |
Yes |
No |
| Through-Body String Anchoring for Tone |
Yes |
No |
| Tilt-back Head for Long Sustain |
Yes |
No |
| Adjustable String Saddles |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support Strap Included |
Yes |
Yes |
| Method Book(s) Included Free? |
Yes |
No |
| Output Cable Included Free? |
Yes |
No |
| Wide String Spacing for Ease of Play |
Yes |
No |
| Simple Fourths-Tuning Standard? |
Yes |
No |
| Buzz Feiten Intonation System Included? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize String Saddle Materials? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize Knobs, Straplocks, Bridgeplates? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize Tuners? |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customize: Choices of Pickups? |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customize: Active Pickups Available? |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customize: Bartolini Pickups Available? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize: Piezo pickups available? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize: Fanned-Frets Available? |
Yes |
No |
| Customize: Edgedots available for easy navigation? |
Yes |
No |
| Assembled to Your Specification? ** |
Yes |
Yes |
| Typical Time for Assembly |
1-3 weeks |
5-9 months |
| Price? |
$1190 |
$2500 |
| Value? |
Excellent |
You Decide |
** Orders placed direct with Mobius factory are custom-assembled to specification. However, pre-assembled Mobius instruments are often available for immediate shipment on the EBay Megatar Store.