Warr Guitar

{{Short description|American-made touch guitar}}

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| name = Warr Guitar

| image = Warr-Guitar-Raptor.jpg

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| caption = 12-string Warr 'Raptor' model (discontinued) with typical hands-crossed tuning.

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| classification = String

| hornbostel_sachs = 321.322

| hornbostel_sachs_desc = Composite chordophone

| inventors = Mark Warr

| developed = 1991

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| related = {{bulleted list|Touch guitar|Chapman stick}}

| musicians = {{hlist|Trey Gunn|Colin Marston}}

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The Warr Guitar is an American-made touch guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard. Invented by Mark Warr, a musician from Thousand Oaks, California,{{cite web | url=https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/gunning-for-warr | title=Gunning for Warr - Premier Guitar }}{{cite web | url=https://joeconti.com/instruments | title=Music, Entertainment & More }} it is related to the Chapman Stick, another two-handed tapping instrument. The Warr guitar is designed for either two-handed tapping or strumming. Warr guitars have between seven and 14 strings.{{cite web |url=http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/gunning-for-warr-page-3 |title=Gunning for Warr |publisher=Premier Guitars|date=April 14, 2008}}

Perhaps the best known Warr guitar players are Trey Gunn, formerly of the progressive rock band King Crimson, and Colin Marston of Behold... The Arctopus.