Balmoral Cigar Box Guitar

[Creeker]

I know the cigars are made in the Dominican but I like the box. Balmoral, 3 string cigar box guitar.

[Chas]

I wonder what it would sound like.

Regards

Chas

[Creeker]

It actually sounds really good. I put a Piezo transducer in as a pickup. I have it tuned GG(octave higher)B

[Chas]

It actually sounds really good. I put a Piezo transducer in as a pickup. I have it tuned GG(octave higher)B

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately I don't understand it.

I have heard of 4 string and 6 string guitars. Why did you opt for 3strings rather than 4 or 6?

Any chance of a wav file of the sound?

Regards

Chas

[hylander]

Very cool!

[artificer]

It's a beauty Creeker, I looked for it on etsy but couldn't find it, so I'm assuming it has already found a new home.

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately I don't understand it.

I have heard of 4 string and 6 string guitars. Why did you opt for 3strings rather than 4 or 6?

Any chance of a wav file of the sound?

Regards

Chas

I don't know if it's uniquely American, but the cigar box guitar is very commonly seen with 3-4 strings.

Old ones sometimes only had one or two.

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[Creeker]

Cigar box guitars were made and played by early American blues musicians. They stared through slave culture. They made them from whatever materials they had, mainly broom handles and the wire that held the straw on the broom.
There are a lot of people these days rediscovering these instruments, I am one of them. They can be made for next to nothing depending on what materials you use. (Wood broom handle, wire, box, a few bolts)
If you google or you tube cigar box guitars you'll definitely hear and see some cool stuff

[MacGowan]

That's Cool !! My Uncle was a champion guitar and fiddle player. He won the NW Hoedown fiddle championship 4 or 5 years in a row. I remember him making guitars and fiddles out of the old Cedar cigar boxes.