Category Archives: Books

Fox Chapel Publishing and Cigar Box Nation proudly announce a brand new how-to book from Mike Orr and Shane Speal: Handmade Music Factory – The ultimate guide to making foot-stompin’ good instruments Forward written by the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation … Continue reading →

Experimental Musical Instruments was a quarterly journal that ran from 1985 to 1999 and contained radical instrument designs, ideas and stories.  It’s a shame that the magazine went out of print, but the publisher has generously scanned very single page … Continue reading →

One Man’s Trash: The History of the Cigar Box Guitar goes on sale today at Amazon.com.  Author, Bill Jehle has been researching these instruments for over four years.  He also has the world’s largest collection of antique cigar box guitars … Continue reading →