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 ...

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HUNTSVILLE, AL. - What is a cigar box guitar? Technically, it’s a discarded cigar box with a hole for a 1-inch-by-2-inch fretboard. A hodgepodge of random items. Perhaps with a leather cord attached ...

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 ...

CYPRESS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 22, 2019 / Lace Music ® announces the 2019 art and tone inspired collection of their Cigar Box Guitar featuring their patented Matchbook ™ Pickup, which offers a ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - It started as a search for a different sound. Kevin M. Kraft spent years unsatisfied with the instruments he had and was considering commissioning a custom-made guitar when he ...

Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between ...

Dean Moller is a blues guitar player and cigar-box guitar maker. The former professional woodworker was injured on a job site, ending his career in carpentry. He turned to making wooden bowls ...

Then in the early 2000s there was a nostalgia-filled revival of the instrument. "Although the making of these guitars began in the 1800s, they are coming back full circle," said Mike Snowden, a ...