One-string cigar box violins/fiddles played a big role in early vaudeville performances, and if you’ve ever thought about building one, here’s your chance! We just added a new entry to the “Historic Plans” section of the knoweldgebase – a great old magazine article from 1948 showing you how to build a simple one-string cigar box violin.
We even included a link to a video post over on Cigar Box Nation where you can see W. C. Fields making quite a todo over playing one of these instruments.
Hello, Kevin. Thank you for inquiring as to the whereabouts of that video. To our disappointment, we can no longer find it either.
Where’s the link to the video of Fields??? I don’t see one–and I’ve been trying to find it for awhile, ironically, with no success.
Looks a bit more like a cello to me, but the prinicple, obviously is the same.