NS/Stick

The NS/Stick is an 8 string tapping instrument designed by Emmett Chapman and Ned Steinberger. It incorporates design ideas from both the original Stick and from Ned Steinberger's instruments such as the Stick's tapping fretboard and the Steinberger Bass' knee bar and headless design. The player can position the instrument upright for tapping or lower it to a horizontal position for picking, slapping, or strumming.

Don Schiff is one of the most well known NS/Stick musicians.

Tunings
Standard Bass 4ths 
Can be thought of as a six string bass with two additional higher strings.
  1. Bb
  2. F down a 4th
  3. C down a 4th
  4. G down a 4th
  5. D down a 4th
  6. A down a 4th
  7. E down a 4th
  8. B down a 4th
Guitar Intervals 
The string arrangement of a 6-string guitar tuned down a fifth (or baritone guitar tuning), with two lower strings.
  1. A
  2. E down a 4th
  3. C down a major 3rd
  4. G down a 4th
  5. D down a 4th
  6. A down a 4th
  7. E down a 4th
  8. B down a 4th
Guitar Lower Octave 
This tuning puts the E-to-E relationship of a standard guitar, down an octave, in the middle of the 8 strings, with a lower B and a higher A string to round things out.
  1. A
  2. E down a 4th
  3. B down a 4th
  4. G down a major 3rd
  5. D down a 4th
  6. A down a 4th
  7. E down a 4th
  8. B down a 4th
gollark: The advantage of XTMF is that your tapes would be playable by any compliant program for playback, and your thing would be able to read tapes from another program.
gollark: Tape Shuffler would be okay with it, Tape Jockey doesn't have the same old-format parsing fallbacks and its JSON handling likely won't like trailing nuls, no idea what tako's program thinks.
gollark: Although I think some parsers might *technically* be okay with you reserving 8190 bytes for metadata but then ending it with a null byte early, and handle the offsets accordingly, I would not rely on it.
gollark: Probably. The main issue I can see is that you would have to rewrite the entire metadata block on changes, because start/end in XTMF are offsets from the metadata region's end.
gollark: I thought about that, but:- strings in a binary format will be about the same length- integers will have some space saving, but I don't think it's very significant- it would, in a custom one, be harder to represent complex objects and stuff, which some extensions may be use- you could get some savings by removing strings like "title" which XTMF repeats a lot, but at the cost of it no longer being self-describing, making extensions harder and making debugging more annoying- I am not convinced that metadata size is a significant issue
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