This wild instrument was created by Cigar Box Nation member, Miku and was submitted in the Musical Mutant Build-Off Contest. He describes it as a "Human powered, 24 tone polyphony, 16th notes electric kalimba mechanical sequencer plus electric hu
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Here's a simple way to make sure your bridge is set correctly on your cigar box guitar. (If it's in the wrong place, things are gonna sound out-of-tune.)
-Shane
Read more…Shane Speal is back with a new lesson that tackles the biggest problem with so many beginners: the picking hand! "Your left hand is what you know. Your right hand is who you are."
Follow Speal's suggestions to make your picking hand a "drumstick" t
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Our most outrageous contest yet!
OVERVIEW: Invent & build a new musical instrument that combines elements from at least two other musical instruments. Submissions accepted as photos and/or videos. We will award gift certificate prizes for the ingeni
Read more…Janis Wilson Hughes takes you through the riffs of Money For Nothing on a 4-string cigar box guitar. She even gives amp settings!
Tuning: Open G: GDGB (low to high)
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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…She's the favorite darling of cigar box guitar fans worldwide. Now Samantha Fish is back with a sexy new video, "Chills & Fever," the first single from the album of the same name.
The album, Chills and Fever hits March 17, 2017.
Thoughts?
French phenom, Jerome Graille continues to push the cigar box guitar into new territories. Check out his smokin' cover of Metallica's "Sad But True" below.
And make sure to see all his other insane covers on his official Youtube playlist.
One of four different album covers for Shane Speal & the Snakes "Stay Primal"
The King of the Cigar Box Guitar has just released his first new album in three years... and it's an unplugged jug band feast!
Acoustic cigar box guitars, washboard, was
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…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply returns with another country cover for one-finger cigar box guitar playing. We love these lessons because they allow ANYBODY to play a cigar box guitar with this simple method.
Here is "You'll Never Leave Har
Read more…In 2017, we challenged you to create new and exciting resonator instruments using paint can lids! Whether its sinking a lid into your favorite cigar box guitar design or coming up with some new and wild musical invention, you built to impress!
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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…There's a secret behind Shane Speal's mangled instruments
In this video lesson, Cigar Box Nation founder, Shane Speal shows his unique "percussive rhythm" of playing, a style of strumming that adds snare and hi-hat sounds with the picking hand.
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Read more…Huntsville, AL guitar builder, Scott Griepentrog was interviewed by Shane Speal at the 2017 New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival as part of the Builder's Forum. The idea was to learn more about the builders and try out their various handmade instrum
Read more…Samantha Fish is coming back with a new album, and she's brought her cigar box guitar to the recording sessions!
The Kansas City blues diva has just premiered her first single, "Crow Jane" from her latest album Chills & Fever. The track is an old
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One of the most exciting solo acts on the cigar box guitar scene is Muscle Shoals one man band, John Nickel. Taking the stage with drum triggers, a full mixing board and other contraptions, Nickel creates a full band sound centered around his 3-strin
Read more…In the past year, I've had dozens of people send me viral videos of musicians playing shovel guitars. It seems to be the current trend: attach three strings to a shovel and film a boogie with an iPhone. The public seems to think this is a new idea
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