Cigar Box Guitars

Author: David Sutton
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565235472
Category : Cigar box guitar
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Cigar box guitars have never been more popular and now crafters can learn to make their own. All they need to do is follow the author's step-by-step instructions for making three different styles of guitar. They're fun (some would say addictive) to build and even more fun to play.

Electric Blues Box Slide Guitar Kit

Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781743677582
Category : Cigar box guitar
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Obsessed With Cigar Box Guitars, 2nd Edition

Author: David Sutton
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1620083140
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 763

Book Description
An unforgettable look inside the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution. Beautiful new color photographs of more than 120 amazing homemade musical instruments. Stunning profiles of DIY musical greatness, from two-string guitars and diddley bows to an electrified washtub bass. New step-by-step project for building your own tenor ukulele.

An Obsession with Cigar Box Guitars

Author: David Sutton
Publisher: Design Originals
ISBN: 9781565237964
Category : Cigar box guitar
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The author of Cigar Box Guitars is back to share his obsession with these handmade treasures, in an amazing picture book that profiles 120 inspiring examples of homemade musical greatness.

How to Play the 3-String Cigar Box Guitar

Author: Rick McKeon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725157002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Less Is MoreHaving only three strings to work with, the 3-string CBG might seem limited, but its limitations are also its greatness!We need to make the most of what we have. This means that we need to play each note with expression, and feeling. That's what makes the music come alive!You will learn the basics of right and left hand technique, chord construction, fingerpicking and slide playing, together with how to jam and improvise on the blues.Access to 26 online video tracks.

The Folk Art Instrument Builders Reference

Author: Charles E. Atchison
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781389817205
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Hardcover Edition of the Folk Art Instrument Builders Reference This book provides a reference for the construction of functional Folk Art & Roots instruments. Roots instruments can be constructed out of boxes, cans, hubcaps, toasters, suitcases, cookie tins, literally with anything you have available. As far as string instruments are concerned you are not limited to the number of strings, scale length, number of frets or to even have any frets at all. It's all about having fun, making art and making music. Within the book you are given techniques, principles, tricks and tips for folk art/roots instrument building. For more information about this book visit: http: //charlesatchison.co

One Man's Trash

Author: William J. Jehle
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781453802397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
"William J Jehle, detritomusicologist and cigar box guitar historian, has collected fragments of these forgotten instruments to create the first written history dedicated to these humble instruments... Spanning over 150 years of artifacts, this book is a collection of the history of the cigar box guitar, its origins and its changes in value and perception from the mid-1800s to the present..." --P. [4] of cover.

Guitar

Author: Tim Brookes
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555846130
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
From humble folk instrument to American icon, the story of the guitar is told in this “exceptionally well-written” memoir by the NPR commentator (Guitar Player). In this blend of personal memoir and cultural history, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes narrates the long and winding history of the guitar in the United States as he recounts his own quest to build the perfect instrument. Pairing up with a master artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes learns how a perfect piece of cherry wood is hued, dovetailed, and worked on with saws, rasps, and files. He also discovers how the guitar first arrived in America with the conquistadors before being taken up by an extraordinary variety of hands: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents’ wives. In time, the guitar became America’s vehicle of self-expression. Nearly every immigrant group has appropriated it to tell their story. “Part history, part love song, Guitar strikes just the right chords.” —Andrew Abrahams, People

Making Poor Man's Guitars

Author: Shane Speal
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607655470
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
• Shows how to build cigar box guitars and other amazing musical instruments made from found items. • Step-by-step instructions and color photographs. • Background on the history of cigar box guitars and the golden age of blues and jazz. • Introduction from the New Orleans Museum of Jazz. • Recognized as the creator of the modern cigar box guitar movement and known as the “King of the Cigar Box Guitar,” this author is an active roots music performer with a ready audience of fans on social media.

Guitar: an American life

Author: Tim Brookes
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
Reunion is the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years separation. Dark Pony is the telling of a mythical story by a father to his young daughter as they drive home in the evening.