[beefman]

The Harpejji is based on the StarrBoard, invented by my friend John Starrett[1][2] in the 1980s,[3] as acknowledged on the Harpejji website[4]. Not sure how the Guardian got to such lengths describing Meeks as the inventor without noticing this.

Here's a photo I took of the original StarrBoard in Gainesville, FL in 1997: https://imgur.com/pilVv8b

[1] https://starrettguitars.com/

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q2hIMZ8AAAAJ&hl=en

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarrBoard

[4] https://www.marcodi.com/pages/about-us

[doormatt]

What about the Chapman Stick, which came even earlier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_Stick