by Shane Speal
Muddy Waters was one of my very first heroes when I was introduced to the blues. He had the swagger and the bravado like no other man who has walked this earth.
He also had a badass guitar technique played with reckless abandon.
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The Cigar Box Guitar Museum housed inside Speal's Tavern in New Alexandria PA has just expanded the collection by more than 30 instruments. The free exhibit now features cigar box guitars built by Cigar Box Nation members including Anonymous Pick,
Read more…Samantha Fish is currently on her Chills & Fever 2017 tour and she sat down with Reverb.com to show off her pedalboard and main guitars (including her Stogie Box 4-string cigar box guitar). Check out the wild space effects she gets from her delay!
Read more…Found object guitars are popping up everywhere! We have two new viral videos this week featuring guitars made from an axe and a car air filter. If you have a wild instrument of your own, post it in the comments below.
Reverend Peyton Plays and Spl
Read more…Internet viral sensation, Brushy One-String is known for flogging an old acoustic guitar graced with a single bass string. After playing that guitar worldwide for several years, it was finally in need of some repairs. Pablo Lojo, a luthier in Buen
Read more…Shane Speal has been championing the 3-string "EEB" tuning for years and has written several songs with it. In this lesson, he shows how you can start playing your own lush ballads by simply using two fingers for a moveable chord. It also includes
Read more…Cigar box guitar phenom (and teacher) Jerome Graille returns with another blistering 3-string cigar box guitar video. "Just my little Eruption on cigar box," he comments.
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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…Shane Speal's back with one of the most useful lessons for cigar box guitar sellers looking for the ultimate riff that will draw people to their booth. Speal shows how to use a simple G major scale on a three-string slide CBG and a Roland MicroCube
Read more…So I've read a few times about how back in the day blues musicians would get their start stringing a wire on the side of a house so I figured why not. I streched me a wire on the side of a shack, and plucked a little Spoonful. It was a fun if a bit m
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…I'm figuring this all out as I go, for I have never played a guitar or any other plucked string instrument.
1.Diddly Bow.
I mostly built this diddly bow over the weekend. I substituted an eye bolt tuner because I wanted to see how one worked. Otherw
Read more…Good morning folks:
The diddley bow is the first musical instrument I've ever picked up and felt good about noodling with. I spent a fair chunk of my childhood in New Orleans, and my weekends were occupied with listening to Jazz concerts, funerals an
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A sketch of Eddie "One String" Jones instrument. A 2x4, broom wire, medicine bottle for a bridge (covered by a paint can, which Jones called his "broadcaster"). Played with a bottle slide and a stick.
Song #1: Eddi
Read more…So, I'm building a diddley bow and was gonna use a magnetic pickup, but on a couple of my boxes, there's no good way to cut into them without ruinin the image on the box. So my question, will a peizo work on these? I've seen some discussions saying t
Read more…I'm trying to build a 3 strings jouhikko a verry old instrument from Finland play with a bow !!
It looks pretty easy to build, but i can't find blueprint anywhere !!
This instrument works with verry expensive horsehair strings, but can be played with
Read more…i built a diddley bow and im now making some adjustments on it. I found this pickup and it only looks like it have one wire coming from it. i thought there were supposed to be at least two wires coming from these? maybe a red and a black. if you scro
Read more…Hey all, I have made a Diddley Bow but with a wire fro the string. I am afraid the wire is too thick because when I strum it, it sounds really dull and not loud or long at all. I was just wondering what kind of item you guys have used for a string? I
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I am in the process of making/tuning up my diddley bow and I looked at some guitar tuner knobs and im wondering how I can put them in the board without making any cuts on the board (maybe one or two straight cuts is fine). Ive been wanting
Read more…Hello, I wanna make guitar what deafs and hearing impaired can also enjoy.
Deafs can feel vibrations. Hearing impaired depends on how much is hearing
loss or they have ear implant .
Seome hearing impaired persons can hear loud or very loud sounds.
I
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