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 ...

It has been said that no zydeco band is complete without a rubboard and an accordion. But deep in the birthplace of zydeco, an exhibit at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type ...

Pary Flynn's cigar box guitar made from an old sycamore tree that was on the Faucek/McKee Farm in Edwardsville. The farm is currently being developed into commercial businesses across from the ...

The instrument was an invention of poor black American musicians during the mid-19th century. How Cigar Box Guitars Are Making A Comeback [Youtube] The cigar box guitar was an invention of poor black ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

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 ...

Who can forget the homemade musical instruments they made as children – the rubber band guitars, shakers with beans, or the simple wax paper over a comb kazoos? But homemade instruments aren’t just a ...

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CHARLESTON -- Tony Taylor heard it when he was listening to a Tom Waits record. It was an instrument he didn't recognize in the mix. He opened the CD notes to find it listed as a cigar box banjo. He ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...