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At 4:12am on April 17, 2018, Steve Allen said…: This is a stone cold winner on all fronts ~ creativity, elegance, recycling, musical instrument and a unique piece of art. Keep on raising the bar for us cigar box luthiers!

At 7:57pm on July 21, 2014, Cpt. Nemoff said…

Album Notes

Cigar Box Guitar and classical music met again after 150 years!

In the middle of XIX century there were musicians who classical pieces performed on homemade instruments such as Cigar Box Guitar. But, unfortunately, there are no records of these unique
performances did not survive. How do sounds classical music of the Renaissance on cigar box guitar?

"Das Wohltemperirte Cigar Box Guitar" Album ( translation: Well-Tempered sigar box guitar ) was recorded in a home studio by Eugene Nemov.

The list of works you will see all the familiar songs and names of composers such as Franz Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Albinoni and names of familiar music lovers Renaissance: Pascal Bouquet and Francesco da Milano.

Pascal Bouquet - French lutenist, he lived in XV-th century. Pascal Bouquet composed many excellent works for lute and baroque guitar. Musical notations this musician survived to this day. "Brande des Hermites" and "Volte Praetorius" - it's two works from the collection of popular dances of France, Pascal Bouquet written specifically for learning to play the lute.

Francesco Canova da Milano (Italian Francesco Canova da Milano) - Italian Renaissance lute, one of the major European composers XVI veka.Franchesko Canova da Milano is one of the best composers of lute music, and possibly greatest lute virtuoso of all time. His work, and the amazing beauty of a consistently high level, and are often performed today.

Just the album includes two copyright works Eugene Nemov - "French dance" and "English dance". They are written in a popular style of lute music of the Renaissance .

All works have been performed at 3-string classic guitars from cigar boxes, made by Eugene Nemov. Description and images of these instruments You can see on the site www.cigarboxguitars.ru and personal Evgeny Nemov page on the www.cigarboxnation.com ;

Enjoy!

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At 9:12am on June 20, 2014, Mark Stowe said…: thanks for the add and for sharing my video of Voodoo Child...

At 3:46pm on November 3, 2013, Hellhound Custom Built Guitars said…: well you sell them so what are the price ranges might treat myself this xmas /.... love the artistry

At 12:50am on October 6, 2013, Gene Jaimez said…: Bill, You build some fine looking instruments.

Gene Jaimez

At 1:56pm on September 9, 2013, Low Budget Luthier said…: LUV UR WORK

At 10:22pm on August 7, 2013, darryl kernaghan said…: thanks for friending me bill,any help i may be able to give,you are welcome too

At 9:42am on April 1, 2013, Mike "Katfish" Karash said…: Hey Bill, been at the house up North (no internet) so I'm catching up on CBN. Didn't mean to leave you hangin' on your friend request. You've got some really nice builds pictured on your page, well done! I hope you don't mind if I adapt some elements of your designs into some of my work (imitation being the most sincere form of flattery). Thanks for the friendship...

At 3:18am on March 2, 2013, South Paw,Davey said…: Thank for the invite ;-)

At 3:21pm on February 28, 2013, Harold Grissom said…: Thank you Bill. I sure appreciate it.

At 8:08am on February 22, 2013, Reeds Taylor said…: He Bill, thanks for the nice comments, and the friendship.... ya I do enjoy working with my hands....here's my websites...may interest you.

http://reedstaylor.webs.com/

www.freewebs.com/thecanecarver

Reeds!

At 3:00am on February 22, 2013, Uncle John said…: Hey, I liked your Ashton and Bobby builds and the fish face. Glad to have you for a nation friend.

At 1:52pm on February 14, 2013, mr2kewl said…: I'm not as active on this site as much as i am on Ted Crocker's Handmade Music Clubhouse site. (http://handmademusicclubhouse.com/). i haven't posted much here as i have over at Ted's place. i think most of the peeps are more near the city and up in the Milwaukee area.

At 12:10pm on February 14, 2013, mr2kewl said…: hey bill -i'm just up the road from you in Richmond

At 5:07am on February 13, 2013, Chris Thomas said…: Hi Bill, snowing again here, more of a summer man myself. Sadly the cold weather impedes the progress of my builds but nearly completed the latest one that I am building for my youngest son Gavin who lives in Madrid. I opted for the laminated build as it's a six stringer without a truss rod. The first build was for my eldest son Guy, he wanted a fretless four stringer to use with slide, turned out quite well. If you want to take a look he did a video demo which you can find on my page. Will be interesting to see what your future builds are like, "The Bobby" has a nice body design but not keen on MDF as a build material due to it's toxicity, a good industrial mask is a must. I tend to use natural woods and some plywoods but have designs using steel in mind with plenty of rust for the future. Have a good day mate, all the best, Chris. :)