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The modern revival of cigar box guitars is documented in the 2008 film Songs Inside the Box, which was shot primarily at the Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza, an annual event held in Huntsville, Alabama, [7] which has since been re-named the World's Longest-Running Cigar Box Guitar Festival. [8] The 19th annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival was held ...
A lowebow is a variation of the cigar box guitar, created by John Lowe in the 1990s. [1] It involves a cigar box with two wooden rods projecting from it. Each wooden rod typically holds one string: a bass string attached to one rod and a standard acoustic guitar string attached to the other.
Mike Snowden was born on January 1, 1970, in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He played bass in several bands as a teenager and was mentored by three older musicians—Donnie Hyams, Sammy Nix, and David Dollar—who expanded his musical horizons beyond heavy metal and recruited him to play bass with them when they performed in local bars.
Shane Speal (born May 20, 1970) is an American musician, historian, and instrument builder who is best known for building and promoting cigar box guitars. [1] He is the author of the D.I.Y. musical instrument book Making Poor Man's Guitars (2018, Fox Chapel Publishing)] and is a writer for the magazine Guitar World.
File:Louisiana Red playing a 3-string Sugarbox Cigar Box Guitar Guitar at the 2010 Blues Music Awards.jpg The late Louisiana Red plays a three-string cigar box guitar in the hotel lobby during the 2010 Blues Music Awards. Guitar was made by the photagrapher Shane Hopkins Founder of Sugarbox Guitar Company
Achieving the same range as a standard-tuned guitar using minor-thirds tuning would require a nine-string guitar (e.g. E ♭ 2–G ♭ 2–A2–C3–E ♭ 3–G ♭ 3–A3–C4–E ♭ 4). Major thirds
The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave. High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B. This is an all fourths tuning.
New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning.The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G).