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Welcome to another little Cigar Box Nation Newsletter!

This week, it's packed with some unusual DIY instruments to explore, including a one-string diddley bow that's played with a doorbell clapper! We've also got a brand new TV feature on CBGitty that aired two days ago...and is currently causing an explosion of interest in cigar box guitars up in New Hampshire.

Don't forget to tune in to the Gitty Gang Show, today at 3pm (EST) on Facebook. Ben and the Gang will have a few songs and more features of YOUR instruments.

-Shane Speal
DIDDLEY BOW! How to Build a One-String Vibro Fiddle - 1937

This 83-year old article from Popular Mechanics offers a different take on an electric one-string guitar. Instead of using electricity to amplify the string, it uses the power to create a tremolo picking contraption by hacking a doorbell clapper...

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WMUR-TV Feature on Cigar Box Guitars & CBGitty.com. Watch it here...
Searching for EARLE - the Mysterious New Orleans Busker

Help me track down the "Guitarcheology" of two mysterious instruments! These guitars were built by the same New Orleans street musician, prior to Hurricane Katrina. Each one has salvaged acoustic guitar necks mounted to long boxes (one is a cigar ...

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VIDEO - Rich Eberlen's Cigar Box Stoessel Lute

Just when I think I've seen just about every incarnation of cigar box instruments, Rich Eberlen shows up with his Cigar Box Stoessel Lute. According to the info on his website, The Fretboard Explorer, the hybrid-style lute/zither instrument style ...

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