If music can bring a smile, get ready for some ear to ear sunshine!
and check out the vintage tape machine used to record this cigar box music, perfect match…whoa : -)
Early 1900′s Cigar Box Instruments
Cigar Box guitar enthusiast AKA Termoking is a legend at sniffin’ out old cbg photos from history’s long forgotten chapters, here’s his newest find!
From France, date unknown
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Glory, Glory!
Check out this wonderful 3 string string guitar duet…it get’s no better than this on a Sunday afternoon!
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Cigar Box Guitar Factory
A class from John Abbott College’s fine art department doing a little field trip at the Daddy Mojo guitar building shop…always fun to get kids exited about working with their hands!
The Daddy Mojo guitar factory getting ready for the guitar Stork to make his deliveries!
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Cigar Box Guitar builder makes NATIONWIDE news!
Check out this cigar box guitar builder, he makes his guitars with leftover scraps, tire spokes and recycled stuff…and his stuff sounds amazing…listen to the guitars in theis video…you will never play a fender again!
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Cigar Box Instruments of the Civil War
There are several accounts of Confederate and Union troops camped near one another harmonizing “Home, Sweet Home!” across the battle lines.
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Cigar Box Guitar Museum Expands for 2012 – Unveiling Sat., Feb 18 – featuring concert by Shane Speal
The Speal’s Tavern Cigar Box Guitar Museum has been expanded and improved for 2012. The museum now sports over 40 handmade instruments, cigar box amplifiers, antique photos and artwork along with historical facts and discoveries. The 2012 exhibit will be unveiled this Saturday, February 18 at 6pm followed by a special Mardi Gras concert by museum creator, Shane Speal.
Shane Speal first debuted the Cigar Box Guitar Museum in October of 2010 with a collection of about 30 handmade instruments. In the newest incarnation, Speal and co-curator, Al Hamilton have installed improved museum lighting, historical placards and one of the largest collection of cigar box guitar ephemera, dating back to the late 1800′s. Visitors will learn the stories of many great blues, rock and country stars who got their start on cigar box guitars.
The centerpiece of the museum is a 92 year old cigar box guitar from 1910. The rare find was a donation from John “Reddog” McNair, a New Orleans instrument builder and historian who currently resides in Puerto Rico. It’s crude form features only a single string and is very similar to instruments performed in Vaudeville theatre at the turn of the Century.
Other instruments include double neck cigar box guitars, instruments made from license plates and a solidbody guitar made by Ted Crocker, the luthier behind the guitar in John Sayles blues movie, The Honeydripper.
Discover an untold chapter in American music history. The museum is free and open to the public during Speal’s Tavern regular business hours.
SEE PHOTOS OF THE ENTIRE COLLECTION ALONG WITH MORE INFORMATION AT THE CIGAR BOX GUITAR MUSEUM PAGE.
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France 1914 Homemade Box instrument
Termoking has done it again! finding this wonderful photo from World War 1
La Guerre dans le Nord de France. Avant la messe en musique-un violoncelle improvisé
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