I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

PRIDE, LA (WVUE) - Many years ago, people who couldn't afford to buy a guitar would make their own out of a cigar box, and the distinct bluesy-folk sound of those homemade instruments is making a bit ...

Larry McPheeters will share a part of American history as an artist in residence Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Valhalla Twin Cabins at the Tallac Historic site. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three ...

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The instrument was an invention of poor black American musicians during the mid-19th century. How Cigar Box Guitars Are Making A Comeback [Youtube] The cigar box guitar was an invention of poor black ...

LIVERMORE — Ed Roudebush heard something different in a song that didn’t quite sound like a guitar, but wasn’t a banjo either. After some research, he found the cigar box guitar, and now months later ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...