Cardboard Cigar Box
Can a cigar box with a cardboard base and a wooden lid be successfully used to make a CBG
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Amazing Grace
A/Grace CBG instrumental by Mountain Voodoo. I would like a copy of this song either disc or MP3.
can anyone help.
Read more…Upright Double Bass Strings
What is the distance apart of the strings at the nut and at the bridge. The double bass is 3/4 size about 6 foot in length.
Read more…Bass
am going to build an upright bass. Does anyone have plans or information that may help especially with scale length, tuning machines, use of piezo and any other helpful information? If you can point me in the right direction it would be a help e.g. s
Read more…CBG for travelling.
I will be leaving Oz for a 2-6 month trip to France and later for about the same time in the USA. I want to take a CBG with me. I am still a newbie and want to know if there is a CBG which can be easily dismantled and then reassembled . If not what i
Read more…Multiple Piezo Installation
I recently read an article from ‘Experimental Musical Instruments’ (www.windworld.com) and this is a quick summation.
Because of the electrical nature of Piezos, wiring in series yields poor results. Parallel wiring is the way to go. It also means th
Read more…Cigar Box Guitar Australia
I would like to suggest that members take a look at the web site “Cigar Box Guitars Australia” http://cigarboxguitarsaustralia.ning.com/ There is a lot of useful information, some just a repeat of this site. But there is enough original material to
Read more…CBG Functions 2013
My partner and I are planing a 1-2 month visit to the USA next spring. We would like to go to as many CBG functions ( all types) as we can. We would prefer if possible rural locations. So I hope with your help we can start a list starting May 1, 2
Read more…Rod PiezoInside the Bridge
These comments are from a “newbie". I am trying to get satisfactory volume from a rod piezo pickup inserted in the bridge of a licence plate CBG. The bridge is the outer shell of a barrel bolt. I have the piezo just lying in the channel; I get no whe
Read more…Amplifiers. replacing the speaker
I bought an old AMP (240 V -A/C---- Australia.). I measured the output from the transformer and this was 15 V. THe old speaker is 8 inch and 8 ohm. I want to put it in a new smaller box . (with better acoustics) with a 4 inch or smaller speaker. I ha
Read more…Size of Piezo
Does size realy matter when choosing a Pieso disc or rod. I have pieso's 40 mm and 20mm. Has the larger one any advantage.
Read more…Jews Harp (jaw Harp)
I know it is along way away from a CBG. I would like to know if anyone has made a jews harp (I am making one now out of steel) and if there any good DVD or instruction manuals on them. I have watched some instructions on Utube but they didn't help me
Read more…Soldering
I have had no experience in soldering. Can members share their tips and secrets on how to get a good job, particulally in joing very fine wire . An example are the wires on C.B Gitty Piezo. How do yoy hold them. They are nearly imposable to twist tog
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