If you want to make a very basic guitar you can do so with a piece of 1x2-inch oak, string, a few hardware odds and ends, and a cigar box. Cigar box guitars have been a growing trend in maker culture ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

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Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

The Cigar Box Guitar is hardly essential, but it has an undeniable appeal, and it's fun. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to help you ...

When Diane Sutliff started making cigar-box guitars in late 2008, she was driven by curiosity, some innate craftiness, and the desire to improve upon someone else’s work—the same things that seem to ...

The New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival (NOCBGF), which launched in 2016, celebrates the unpolished, meaty sound of the cigar box instrument — and its ingenuity. Take a cigar box (or really anything ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There’s a raw, almost primitive electricity that sizzles off “Lucy & ...

The electronics I used in this project consist of: 1 Mono Audio Jack (1/4") 1 Piezoelectric Transducer 1 Potentiometer (must use one with a 5 Meg Ohm rating or better) Other parts and tools required: ...

Shane Speal, whose Snake Oil Band headlines the first New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, started out playing something with a little more firepower. “In the ’80s, I was a bass player ...

Bill and Alice Saurber are just regular folks from Hamilton, Ohio, playin’ with cigar boxes and pallin’ around. But that didn’t stop the married couple from vying for the title of “America’s Favorite ...

One of the best things about making music is that it’s so easy to do. There are countless ways to make interesting sounds out of nearly anything if you’re willing to experiment a little bit — just ask ...