It's heartening to hear what you have to say about ambidexterity Azrael. I agree that people don't go "OH my god" when they see a pianist play with both hands, but on the other hand it does probably require more accuracy to hit strings in the right place compared to a piano key. I prefer Malmsteem to Michael Angelo but I've only seen one Angelo clip and heard one other track. The clip made me sick! He was floated into the arena on wires with this ridiculous 4 neck guitar, and the music before the solo was the pits, total cliched cross dressing hair metal with awful lyrics. Personally I totally envy the guys technique but then I've never had a double neck and don't know what i couldn't do it given some practice. i've been trying to learn to play right handedly and find that picking with my left (non-dominant) hand is really hard.

Anyway, what's the difference between war guitar and chapman stick? What's best?

I think you guys should check out Adam Fulura's website. he's on this forum sometimes and he's extremely talented. He plays a double neck with both necks pointing the same way and both strung conventionally I think. He plays classical music and stuff like the maple leaf rag. I'd rather listen to him than Michael Angelo any day.

Is it really true that it doesn't matter how the necks are arranged? Surely there are pros and cons to each orientation? Can anyone tell me what they are? I want a double neck or a chapman stick or something.

Actually i suspect that several people on this forum whip very very major butt and are probably up there with all the big names we seem regularly to revere. I'm sure many of you could eat me alive both as technical players and (more especially) as musicians even though I spend hours every day practicing and virtually never play anything that is easy by ordinary standards.

Personally I'd love to be able to do the 2 handed thing so I could play big chorusy chords with close intervals just like pianists do, I think it sounds wonderful. I think that having a greater variety of potential harmonies and greater part independence and not fret wanking are the holy grails of tapping. Tapping's kind of cheating anyway: isn't it easier to allocate a different part to each hand than it is to do what classical players do and split parts across each hand? Classical players have to know the fretboard so well to make things physically playable, neoclassical players can cheat cause the electric guitar's so damn easy to play by comparison.