This article may lack focus or may be about more than one topic. Please help improve this article, possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page, or discuss this issue on the talk page.(November 2015)
The Duo'lectar "Touch Guitar" is a double neck stringed musical instrument, designed to exclusively be played by tapping. It is the second patented new musical strings instrument in America. It was the first double neck, or single neck touch/tapping instrument to show nationally in 1960. The "Electronic Mute" was designed specifically for touch/tapping instruments to eliminate all unwanted noise associated with touching and tapping.
The first on record (discovery/showing) of the touch/tap playing method was a public performance at the University of Washington, "Meany Hall" in 1955 by a renowned English guitarist, Jimmy Webster. Webster wrote the first method book "Touch System" Method book for single neck tapping. The first national showing of the DuoLectar was when it was played live on the syndicated Ozark Jubilee TV show, hosted in the 1960 by Eddy Arnold and Red Foley The Duo'Lectar was first used in a public performance from 1965 to 1974 as a swing relief and headline show at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. A new patent the "Electronic Mute" #5,162,602, established the name Touch Guitar.
The second person credited for invention was Emmett Chapman who was the designer and credited for starting the single neck, stick style instruments, in the mid 1970's, which most all single neck tapping instruments are now known as. These two instruments; the Bunker product, and the Chapman Stick are the only touch/tap style instruments which can be accredited to new stringed instrument invention.
