Hamatar
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Hamatar is the name given to a dual bodied guitar that can be played like a piano and guitar. The name is from the hammer on tapping style made famous by guitar players such as Stanley Jordan and Eddie Van Halen. The Hamatar has a center fret and a left and right fretboard on a single neck, with a total of 49 frets. The instrument has guitar pickups at both ends of the fretboard and 6 strings .The Hamatar is tuned with two adjustable bridges. One bridge has fine tuners and the other bridge anchors the strings using zither pin tuners.
Invented by Curtis Myers, the Hamatar was first introduced in 1993 at the SXSW Trade Show in Austin, Texas. The first ten Hamatars were made by luthier Ross Jennings in Austin, Texas.
The U.S. Patent Office selected the Hamatar and 139 other patents out of 40,000 in 1994 to attend the Inventors Expo at Disneyworld.
