Making poor man's guitars : cigar box guitars, the frying pan banjo, and other DIY instruments /
This book presents the authentic stories of American DIY music, with step-by-step projects, photo studies of antique instruments, interviews with music legends, and historical accounts. Shane Speal shows how anyone can build amazing musical instruments from found items.--
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Mount Joy, PA :
Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc.,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Foreword: Little Freddie King's cigar box guitar: a bluesman's firsthand account
- "Nobody builds a cigar box guitar because they want to play nice things"
- How to build a three-string cigar box guitar
- Variations on a theme--pickups and mods to the three-string cigar box guitar
- "The Portland cowboy" tin can guitar
- "Foot stomper" cigar box percussion unit
- Electric washtub bass, a.k.a. "The soul bucket"
- Beer can microphone
- 2 x 4 lap steel guitar
- The mailbox guitar (a builder's diary)
- Cigar box preamp
- Electric washboard
- "The lady" guitar--an electric guitar illegally handmade inside a prison
- Recreating Scrapper Blackwell's cigar box guitar (a builder's diary)
- Tips on selling cigar box guitars at festivals and craft fairs
- Cigar box guitar and DIY instrument resources.