Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments ...

Perfect project for first-time cigar box guitar builders, or for parents to do with a child! The easiest, most affordable way to build your own box guitar.

Landry Parish Visitor Center features a different type of instrument. The collection of cigar box guitars at first may seem out of place, but the story of the instrument's humble beginning puts it ...

Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. Texas' Arch Manning wows college ...

Click on the "play" button above to hear a clip of "From the Forest a Child" from Kirk Withrow's Lullaby CD. To hear more samples from Withrow's cigar-box guitars, click here. UAB head and neck ...

Keep a couple on the bench to temporarily magnetize tools. Use them to build a pickup to amplify a cigar box guitar or thumb piano. Or run the pickup into a small amplified speaker and wave it ...

After a bit of inspiration, [Pete] decided to build a solid body electric guitar for himself. Instead of assembling a conglomeration of off-the-shelf parts, he plans on building just about ...

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Sierra Hull brought her lush, captivating style of progressive bluegrass-jazz fusion to New Orleans, LA's fabled Tipitina’s ...

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