https://jerusalemmules.bandcamp.com/album/one-horse-town
Here is a new Cd of mostly traditional songs played on a gas can banjo I made. I offer it free to anyone who wants it. I would ask if you do like it and download it please consider sharing the
Read more…We have just discovered another set of historic plans as part of Cigar Box Nation's ongoing research to archive homemade folk instruments. How a Boy Can Make a Banjo was first published in the Salt Lake Herald on Aug. 20, 1893.
The article descri
Read more…Shane Speal shows the simple paper-thru-strings percussion technique that Johnny Cash made popular in songs like "I Walk the Line." This is a lesson that needs to be taught!
Thanks to C. B. Gitty for buying us this nifty new video camera with all
Read more…What happens when you spend all day cutting 1/8" thick wood on a CNC laser cutter? Apparently, C. B. Gitty's Jason Munoz gets inspired to recycle the wood scraps into cigar box guitar necks!
Check out this wild neck Munoz created using nothing but 1
Read more…Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal deconstructs the 6-string riff from Little Red Rooster and transposes it on three-string, open G (GDG) slide cigar box guitar.
Note: Variations of this guitar riff has been used in countless other classic blues
Read more…First off, I'm still a newbie 'round here and not sure if this should be a blog post instead. This is my first time starting a 'discussion'. I figure it's easier to reply here if someone has a question or new idea. So anyway...
I'm a tinkerer. I can
Read more…The last build I did was a proper scale length baritone ukulele with 4 strings..
The neck I have on my table just now seems to be heading in the direction of a 25" 4 stringed banjo type instrument with 3 strings playable with the 4th string being a
Read more…It's Autumn Building Season... and what better time than now to cut into a dried gourd to make a musical instrument!
The gourd banjo dates back to Africa and was one of the first instruments brought to America by slaves. The construction has a lot
Read more…I posted a query about using a tambourine for guitar body a while back. Seems it had been done before, but I couldn't resist.
I used the head stock I had left over from an old violin. I spliced it into a 1" red oak dowel from HD. After splicing and s
Hi there, I have just picked up a 4 string banjo and I am having much trouble finding sheet music, and just overall general information to learn. If I could get one of you great people to help me out and point me in the right direction, that would be
Read more…Hi has anyone actually built an akonting?......Just wondering how to scale it and what position to put the tuners....all the akontings I have seen have amazingly long necks....cheers
Read more…For me drum body banjo sound better. For me Kankara sanshin works with good tin also. I have kankara sanshin measures http://bachido.com/community/forum/12636 Scale lenght is 570mm. I also have some good cookie tins. My problem is neck wood and strin
Read more…G'day, I was wondering if anyone had ever made a banjo only using a car hubcap as the pot? I have a shortscale tenor neck and some old holden hubcaps so I thought I might give it a go......any pointers, hints or tips would be welcome.....cheers
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Does anyone know how to repair a split snakeskin banjo head?
or find the snakeskin material to build another one?
I was thinking of using a narrow backing piece of leather to stick it back on to.
But would welcome any ideas or suggestions..( Jamie
Read more…A commuter accused of indecency on a train has walked free after telling a court he was strumming an imaginary banjo.
Before Melvyn Webb was acquitted, the judge in his trial had informed the jury that men do sometimes innocently ‘fiddle with themsel
Read more…I'm building my first instrument. It's going to be a tenor ukulele, which I'm calling a "banjolele" because the box I'm using is a rectangular tin that once held Whitman's candies. It measures 10" x 8.5". I've got all the materials I need at this poi
Read more…Trying to learn play in open g(GdGb) with slide
Any recommendation and help is good. If I find blues artist who played in open g
I think I can make songs in TuxGuitar for 4 string guitar.
My cookie tin tenor banjo ended as 4 string slide banjo.
F
Read more…I want to have a go at building a banjo...
Does it have to have the resonating plastic skin to give it that banjo sound or can it be substituted for another material or bypassed altogether and get the sound from tuning etc?
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HEy all. I was intersted in trying my hand at making a banjo.
So please tell me, what makes a banjo a banjo?
1) Is it the strings, the string strength (fret distance), the shape of the body, or what the body is made of?
2) Does it have to
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