The Cookie Tin Variety: a community image bank
Post up photos of your tin-tars! These are the ones that look mostly like this:
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The Gas/Kerosene/Oil Can variety: a community image bank
If you've used an upright can on a chordophone, here's the place to show your work.
I'm looking for an olive oil can right now, one of those really pretty ones from Eastern Europe.
The elusive scarf joint
Okay, after failing to pull of a crisp scarf joint with either: hand saw table saw band saw by slicing the neck stock at an angle, flipping over the cut piece and gluing the two back together. I can just never get a perfect cut, and even after sand
Read more…Fret Spacing - standard and not
Thought it would be nice to have this all in one place.
Most dulcimers include the following frets from the chromatic (all of 'em) fingerboard:
0 2 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 - octave 1
24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35,
Read more…What about a blues-cimer?
So I am thinking of making a batch of dulcimers later in the month, and have just hit on the idea of using only the blues notes, so including only these frets: 3 5 7 10 12-octave Anyone ever done this and how was it to play? I ain't no bluesman, bu
Read more…A man after our own hearts!
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/lost-and-found/
Blair Somerville in NZ.
Read more…Tremendous online violin making site!
So incredibly thorough, I can hardly wait to comb through it!
Read more…CBG contagion spreads throughout the military!
Wow, there are currently six servicemembers with open requests on the CBGs for Servicemembers Group! These requests arrived just in the last week. See how many of them say they've seen one belonging to a buddy in their service unit? I remember whe
Read more…Anyone ever built a dual 3 string, tuned Gg-Bb-Ee?
I just tuned up an instrument for a servicemember to GBE by request -- which is something I've never tried before and wow! So many chords, so handy!
It is a 3 string, but now I've a mind to try it with dual strings, tuned in octave pairs.
I've done
Read more…Servicemembers overseas continue to catch the CBG bug!
Just now on the CBGs for Servicemembers forum (http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/cbgsforsoldiers) there are a good handful of military folks who've posted a request for an instrument.
So please take a moment to visit the group page and then see if
Read more…Handmade Music Exhibit in Rockford, IL
Jim Worland of Worland Guitars in Rockford is sponsoring the
4th Annual Handmade Music Exhibit!!
It will be held on Sat, Sept 22 2012 and is open to the public from 11-5.
Location is at Emerson House, 420 N Main St, Rockford IL. It is the home of fol
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Little travel fiddle
I gave up waiting for a thin-sided whiskey box to come along, so I built my own out of spruce. I'll be putting the fingerboard on in the next few days and installing the tuners (cut down 3-on-a-plates to 2-on-a plates). Pyrography inspiration from
Read more…Sour Dough Virtual Band?
How about a Garage Band sound bank? A CBbassist lays down a bass track on Garage Band, and uploads the file here for sharing/embellishing. Players of other instruments pick it up and add to it, and repost. Anyone picks it up again, adds more ("it
Read more…Active Servicemember Needs a Guitar!
Builder alert! A Servicemember/Nationmember who is serving overseas is looking for an instrument play and cherish while far from home!
Stephen in Kandahar, looking for a 3, 4 or 6 string:
www.cigarboxnation.com/group/cbgsforsoldiers/forum/topics/afg
Read more…More by SaReGaMa The Artist
This guy made this one. (He also plays Hugh Tracys in many forms, with customized tunings)
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Digitech JamMan vx Boss RC-20XL?
Yo, Loopers! Two questions:
Do either of these let you change tempo on the fly, without affecting the pitch? (I know the Boss RC-30 does not.)
Is it a dial or a tap?
Read more…Handmade Music Exhibit in Rockford, IL
The 4th annual Handmade Music, a one day exhibit of locally handmade musical instruments. Emerson House, 420 N Main St Rockford.
See a variety of locally hand made instruments and meet the artisans who make them. Live music and demonstrations as th
CBGs for Servicemembers!
Thanks to Dan Sleep for putting together that great slide show on the front page today. That may look like a lot, but I know it is not all of the folks who've been sent a bit of music from the Nation. Some of those guys are mine, but there are oth
Read more…retuning another Hugh Tracey
I just retuned one of these that I have:
to this tuning:
so I can play this:
So much more fun than the original tuning. You can hard
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