Folks:
I am fairly certain I'm not the only player/assembler in the Puget Sound region.
The Seattle Folklife Festival has NEVER had a CBG band or player on stage. It might take a year or two for a local band to get through the audition for time on a
Read more…There's a lot of 60 Hz hum in my acoustic/electric dulcitar. The amp runs on a battery, so there's no wall-wart leakage, at least not directly.
Besides wearing a wrist-mount grounding strap that connects across the brass bolt that contacts the strin
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I picked up a CB Bitty "Brown Betty" diddley bow a month ago, and love the tone. It is the sort of sound I've always wanted to hear out of an instrument. I have zero background in music. A lot of cds and albums of Turkish, Middle
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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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I am new to the use of any musical instrument (aside from the obligatory month or two with a recorder while in the SCA 30 years ago), and my CB Gitty Diddly Bo arrived over the weekend. I've watched Sha
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