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Permalink Reply by Calim on May 11, 2015 at 1:37pm

yup totally agree :) 

read a chapter of Lomax's book some times ago  telling about the participatory approach of the music in african music, very interesting...

well i wish i could tell more about all of this but my English expressing is too limited ahah..

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on May 11, 2015 at 11:51am

kewl  .  ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on May 12, 2015 at 4:15pm

Cousins to CBGs.   I like them. 

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Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on May 12, 2015 at 6:22pm

I believe that The Phrygian Kid has done work with some necks with similar fretting. Interesting how so many things in the construction of our "primal instruments" have been around for many years. The early builds from the plantation slaves in the south are most likely influenced from these. Also shows how the basic concept of our builds has a lot of history behind it.

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Permalink Reply by Calim on May 15, 2015 at 11:16pm

 yes; i  can't help wondering if these instrument are cousin by coincidence or if they actually could have directly inspired the first cbg builds . !

i remember seeing one here with the same kind of fretting some times ago too but couldn't remember who made it; i will check Phrygian kid's pics

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Permalink Reply by Calim on May 12, 2015 at 7:50pm

:)

I was in a secondhand market with a couple of  tin two stringer i built when a guy stop and ask me "are these instruments come from Madagascar" ? ...i didn't understood at first but when came home my curiosity push me to search online about instrument from Madagascar; and found out about the kabosy, so thats what this guy must have been talking about; and i believed they must be big part in the origin of the cbgs!

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Permalink Reply by Calim on May 12, 2015 at 9:01pm

a article i found here: the concise Garland encyclopedia of world music says this combination of frets may have been developed so this type of kabosy could be played while walking...

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on May 13, 2015 at 2:09am

older than  you  may  think.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on May 13, 2015 at 2:47am

Don't know Mr Pick, sometimes I think pretty old.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on May 13, 2015 at 2:48am

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Calim on May 15, 2015 at 11:18pm

aaah yep saw these some time ago; love these egytptian "cbg" ;)
i think the box guitar 's building must be in our universal primitive genetics ahah must be the reason we cant help builiding them

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on May 13, 2015 at 4:50pm

This is a great find Calim!  Thanks for posting. 

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