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Cake Box Diddley Bow

Posted by Spaceship Mark on November 27, 2009 at 3:46pm

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kazoo, slide, cake, cigar, bow

My first cigar box guitar, a one string diddley bow. The body is a cake box from the Imperial Hotel in Vienna, the rest is found stuff and a few bits from Ma...

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Crow December 26, 2009 at 10:47pm

best use of a kazoo i've ever seen! LOL

great stuff! i've built plenty of stuff but now i think it's really time to go back to a one stringer to play around. thanks for the inspiration dude!!!! :D

by the way, a 3/4 inch PVC plastic pipe is easy to cut, super cheap, and works surprizingly well to make slides out of. XD
Ishmaelprophet December 5, 2009 at 6:53pm

I love this, D-bows are the @^#%
HOLLOWBELLY November 28, 2009 at 2:36pm

wicked mate.If the band Spacemen 3 had a played diddley bows, that second half is what they woulda sounded like.
Roosterman November 28, 2009 at 1:06pm

Cool wit the echo effect! Good work :o)
Soulcatcher & His DooFa Diddley November 28, 2009 at 10:51am

Well cool matey
bemuzic November 28, 2009 at 4:56am

1 string and a kazoo...great!!!
Tres Seaver November 27, 2009 at 5:45pm

Nice feel to it -- you are getting good mileage from the single string.
Ice Bob November 27, 2009 at 5:03pm

western to heavy lots of sounds in that box