Ever wanted to know how to build a One-string Cigar Box Violin?

W. C. Fields and his one-string Cigar Box Violin
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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.

 

3 thoughts on “Ever wanted to know how to build a One-string Cigar Box Violin?”

  1. 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.

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