Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams, ...

Larry McPheeters will share a part of American history as an artist in residence Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Valhalla Twin Cabins at the Tallac Historic site. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three ...

York resident Shane Speal has been making and playing cigar box guitars for more than two decades. "I was searching for something that was the most primal guitar sound out there. I stumbled upon the ...

I've made a new CBG tutorial video, this time a fretted version. Check it out here: • How To Make A Fretted Cigar Box Guitar Total build (not including glue dry time) took about 3 hours for this ...

Musician Speal shares his decades of experience in building, playing, and customizing classic DIY instruments in this delightful guide. It was hearing Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” that caused him to ...

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WFFF) – With its entrancing sound and unique look, this is not your typical stringed instrument. It’s a cigar box guitar, and some of them are being made in Plattsburgh. Scott ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

KAREN MEYERS HAS THE STORY. ♪ KAREN: TOETAPPING, FINGER SNAPPING MUSIC, GRITTY TUNES HUMMING FROM A HOMEMADE INSTRUMENT -- A CIGAR BOX GUITAR. BEN: IT SOUNDS PRIMAL, AND YOU CAN’T REALLY GET THOSE ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The 19th annual ...