Why Tapered Guitar Necks
Why tapered guitar necks anyway? In this video Dave Bunker explains whether this long tradition is important or not.
Credit For Inventing Tapping?
I was honored to see Stanley Jordan reply to my answer (posted on YouTube and Quora). While Jordan and van Halen did not invent tapping, they both embody the very best of its potential. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fw0jq4VAkg Photo Credits in order: Gretsch, Joe Mabel, and Carl Lender
Redd Foxx at the Golden Nugget
The Dave Bunker Band, for most of the ten years at the Golden Nugget, was to do what was called swing-relief. We would do five shows a day from Wednesday through Saturday. We would then headline on Sunday going directly into the graveyard shift and get off at 6:00 am on Monday morning. We were […]
Listen To The Touch Guitar
Although Bunker Guitars today builds many different award-winning models of guitar, Dave Bunker initially developed, built and patented the precursor to the double neck Touch Guitar in 1955. Read more about the history of his tapping instrument in our pages. Young Dave was a logger in Washington State’s far northwest. But he loved to play […]
Bunker Electronic Mute System-2
Since the “DuoLectar” concept was first patented in 1959, I have wanted to broaden the strings sounds for any stringed musical instrument. So, I developed such an innovation through my work on the next-generation of the DuoLectar, which later evolved into the Dave Bunker “Touch Guitar.” It first had a felt mute placed at the […]
Bunker Electronic Mute System
For over 60 years, I have wanted to broaden the sound from any stringed musical instrument’s strings. I developed such an innovation due to my work on the Dave Bunker “Touch Guitar,” originally patented as the DuoLectar. I certainly do not discount the value of typical, 6+bobbin-wrapped string pickups that have been our standard for […]