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“It’s a hand drum. So that’s what you would call it.”

What it is not is a guitar with the neck 3removed.

“We actually got two 4patents on this because of the shape and because of the bracing inside the design, the 5utility and the design of the thing. We chose a guitar body for a couple of reasons. It’s of course it’s it’s 6evocative, it’s an 7acceptable shape already in the music community, right? But it has the upper 8bout and the lower bout, and the lower bout’s larger and it creates lower 9tones down here than it does up here. So it’s already lending itself to a 10multiplicity of tones.”

“So people who think I’ll just chop the neck off my guitar and I got myself a WalkAbout, right? No, you have to change all the 11bracing ‘cause guitars have so much bracing inside to 12mitigate the pull of the 13strings on the face of the guitar.”