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There are currently six Stick players in Israel. We are constantly in touch with one another, support one another, and learn from one another. For these purposes, we regularly organize meetings at which we exchange ideas, jam, try one another's gear, watch video concerts of Stick players and so on. If you want to join one of such meetings, you are welcome! You don't have to be a Stick player to attend our meetings. We will update you about the dates of the upcoming Stick meeting in Israel soon. Keep tuned!

Ariel Edelman (Bat Yam)

Sticks: Grand Mapple Stick (self-made), Classical tuning, Passive pickup, heavy gauge strings

Standard Mahagony Stick (self-made), Classical tuning, Passive pickup, light gauge strings

Ariel studied accordeon in music school. Later he started mastering guitar in tapping style. A few years ago, he discovered the Stick on the Internet, listened to its sound and fell in love with it. Since the Stick was not easy to aquire in Israel, Ariel decided to build one by himself. He gathered as much as possible information about the Stick and made it, or exatly made a couple - one 10-string and another 12-string, each one in different tuning. Currently Ariel plays the Stick in gospel style for worship.

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Chen Gershuni (Rehovot)

Stick: Grand Rosewood Stick #5058 (Lefty), Matched Reciprocal tuning, ACTV-2 pickup, light gauge strings

Chen regards the Stick as an ideal tool for expressing his musical vision. The ability to simultaneously play harmonies and melody presents him with a freedom of improvisation and composition which he did not experience in his past as a guitarist. He enjoys the complex rhythms that can be created with this instrument.
Chen plays a left- handed Stick. He believes most left handed musicians who play standard instruments do not maximize their playing abilities and hopes more of them would move into playing left-handed ones.

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www.chengershuni.com

Liran Bar-El (Ra'anana)

Stick: Standard Rosewood Stick #1627, Baritone Melody tuning, ACTV-2 pickup, medium gauge strings

Liran plays jazz, folk-rock and music of 60's-70's. Liran hosted our last Stick meeting at his home in Ra'anana. In the summer Liran visited Stick Enterprises for his Stick setup, took a tour around the workshop and had a lesson with Emmett Chapman. Liran is going to write an article in which he will with tell about his visit to Stick Enterprises.

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Boaz Bar Levy (Tel Aviv)

Stick: Standard Shedua Stick #2001, Classic tuning, Stickup, light gauge strings

Boaz prefers music in classic heavy metal style. His main influences are Iron Maidan, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Joe Satriani, Marty Friedman. Besides the Stick, Boaz plays the guitar, banjo and a new instrument called pantam. Boaz has a lot of gear and is constantly surprising us with his new aquisitions. To see the picture of Boaz's gear setup click here. Boaz is an active member of the Stick community, and besides playing the Stick, occupies with distribution of Stick artists' CD's in Israel. Boaz participated twice in the Stick Seminars in Spain, about which he is going to tell us in his article soon.

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Adi Kimhi (Haifa)

Stick: Grand Rosewood Stick with MIDI #1964, Classic 6/6 tuning, ACTV-2 pickup, medium gauge strings

Adi is the graduate of Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where he studied jazz guitar. He plays music in varierty of styles - rock, jazz, progressive and experimantal. Besides the Stick, Adi plays the Steinberger guitar.

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Irene Orleansky (Kfar Saba)

Stick: Standard Polycarbonate #1976, Classic tuning, Stickup, light gauge strings

Irene is a Stick player and a singer presenting on this Website her album "Live The Music" played almost totally on the Chapman Stick. Together with Kirill Malahov, Irene works on music production of their intependent label Music Brothers Records. To read more about Irene visit the page about.

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