Willie, thanks for your reply. Ted Crocker also put me on the track with some construction details, but he didn't know gauge of string. You really made the old gal sing. do you know is there is any extended vid of you playing it? the video I saw was a compilation of your playing at the (turns out that it was Penn.) festival and only had about 20-30 seconds of you on this diddley bow.
Again thinks, I'm building something at this time which is an extension of the principles involved in the Metropolitan... (essentally a diddley, lap steel, played upright).
I was going through some old video from the Huntsville festival. a brief clip had you playing a diddley bow, guitar style, that might have be made from a scrap of plywood. black and white, sorta guitar shaped, strung with a wound (lower note) string. Can you give me any info on this diddley bow? I could use some help, would like to use this idea as a starting place.
Hello! I know ya know me, but....My name is Kevin M. Kraft, founder of the annual Kansas City Cigar Box Guitar Festival. This year's event will take place on August 26th, and once again I am accepting cigar box guitars and cigar box guitar-related donation, which will be raffled off during the festival, the proceeds to benefit Kansas City's Blues in the Schools program. If you have a guitar, accessory, CD, DVD--anything related to cigar box guitars that you would like to donate, please contact me at the Cigar Box Nation or email me at kevinmkraft@juno.com to learn where to send it.
I saw on one of the discussions that you recommend using brass escutcheon pins for position markers and I would like to do the same. I cant find any in local stores and have to order them. Can you tell what size you've used?
thanks for the kind words Willy. I think I am ok with strings my wife is sending some. The cbg is my little moment of zen in this too fast paced camp here. Still we have a 98 per cent survival rate here so the work all pays off. Thanks again for reading and commenting on my post. I love your music all the way around by the way
matt
Ok, so I'll admit. When you hear CBG music over a computer, it sounds ok [read: good] but when you hear the masters in person... It blows you away! One String is the MAN! I could not believe how much he could do with just that wire. Not that I hadn't heard before, but somehow... I dunno. Magical is the only way to put it.
Hey Willie nice meeting and talkin with ya at the fest I told u about the lady in the UK that built a diddley bow on a downed tree hear it is. Tom aka TC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5xC84sm7Q
Hey Willie, do you have anymore of that broom wire left for sale for diddly bows? I am interested in purchasing some but can't find the place where it was offered for sale.... thanks!
I emailed you at your verizon address yesterday to confirm that the wire arrived. If you didn't receive this, let me know. It's not the first time email hasn't gone through with verizon.com. Thanks so much.
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Willie, thanks for your reply. Ted Crocker also put me on the track with some construction details, but he didn't know gauge of string. You really made the old gal sing. do you know is there is any extended vid of you playing it? the video I saw was a compilation of your playing at the (turns out that it was Penn.) festival and only had about 20-30 seconds of you on this diddley bow.
Again thinks, I'm building something at this time which is an extension of the principles involved in the Metropolitan... (essentally a diddley, lap steel, played upright).
the best,
Sam
Willie,
I was going through some old video from the Huntsville festival. a brief clip had you playing a diddley bow, guitar style, that might have be made from a scrap of plywood. black and white, sorta guitar shaped, strung with a wound (lower note) string. Can you give me any info on this diddley bow? I could use some help, would like to use this idea as a starting place.
Sam
Hello! I know ya know me, but....My name is Kevin M. Kraft, founder of the annual Kansas City Cigar Box Guitar Festival. This year's event will take place on August 26th, and once again I am accepting cigar box guitars and cigar box guitar-related donation, which will be raffled off during the festival, the proceeds to benefit Kansas City's Blues in the Schools program. If you have a guitar, accessory, CD, DVD--anything related to cigar box guitars that you would like to donate, please contact me at the Cigar Box Nation or email me at kevinmkraft@juno.com to learn where to send it.
Thanks for you time and consideration.
- Kevin
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/events/the-2nd-annual-kansas-city-cigar-box-guitar-festival
Hello,
I saw on one of the discussions that you recommend using brass escutcheon pins for position markers and I would like to do the same. I cant find any in local stores and have to order them. Can you tell what size you've used?
Thanks,
Devin Lovelace
matt
Great show! See you next year!
-WY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5xC84sm7Q
I emailed you at your verizon address yesterday to confirm that the wire arrived. If you didn't receive this, let me know. It's not the first time email hasn't gone through with verizon.com. Thanks so much.
Susan
Salut, bjr c'est l'abréviation de bonjour
Amicalement Jean Pierre
Thanks for the comment. CGB world is simple but so deep that's my first impression over here....
Best Regards,
Tj
Thanks for the kind comment on my video. Hope all is well!
k
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