¡°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.¡±