Cigar Box Guitars

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Permalink Reply by Downtown Freddy Brown on November 5, 2009 at 6:24pm

It's been a while since I played around with it but about a year ago (believe it or not I was at a Magician's convention) I bought something he called a "Canjo" from one of the dealers which basically was a short hockey stick riveted to a dollar store pie plate and had there strings. It was fretted and tuned like a dulcimer (DAD). I am an acomplished guitar player and was quick to figure out chord forms and songs within minutes of playing with it. here's a pic. I use my mandolin bag and capo with it and I have a stick on pick up which makes it sound really nice through an amp. The first one the guy made used a tomato juice can hence the canjo name but he liked the pie plate better. I suggested maybe he could call the new one a "Panjo"

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Permalink Reply by Walt Pilcher on November 5, 2009 at 7:28pm

We'd love to hear a recording of you playing this.
Walt

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Permalink Reply by Downtown Freddy Brown on November 7, 2009 at 11:50am

I'll see if I can fit that into my schedule. Up til now it was really just a toy to play with. I've never performed with it.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on November 8, 2009 at 9:14am

For all things cigar-box, visit the Cigar Box Nation site:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/

A large community of builders, players, and quirky characters. We've got instructions, video, audio, discussion groups, thousands of photos...etc.

I've been building for a couple of years now, I've built several guitars including a resonator guitar, a banjo, a ukulele, a mandola, etc.
The little guys are great fun and can be as primitive or as complex as you like.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Butler on November 19, 2009 at 9:27pm

Who woulda thunk? Those things are pure folk art and the epitome of the Blues. Totally amazing.

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