CIGAR BOX GUITAR
By Ed Vogel
Sweet-sounding, three-stringed mini guitar revives an American musical tradition.
Set up: p.79 Make it: p.80 Use it: p.86
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL-YOUR-OWN
As a volunteer music teacher, I sometimes meet kids who can’t afford instruments. So I decided to design one that they could inexpensively build themselves, based on the traditional cigar box guitar.
Before the 1950s, when factory guitars became less expensive, many folk musicians built their own stringed instruments. Wooden cigar boxes, which were solidly constructed connoisseur objects, became a popular choice for the instruments’ bodies. Thus, an American tradition was ...
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