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Comment by Julian Perry on October 29, 2009 at 9:46pm

Nice idea Ted, thanks for the invite. We need as much cbg news as we can get over here in Blighty!!

Comment by HOGS GRUNT on October 29, 2009 at 9:04pm

Thanks for the invite Ted.

Comment by Bobiron on October 29, 2009 at 8:22pm

Great idea Ted.

Comment by Bill Ludeman on October 29, 2009 at 6:22pm

Super idea - publicity = good

Comment by Edwin Klipsch on October 29, 2009 at 6:14pm

Thanks for the invite Ted, I think it is a good idea.

Comment by Graham on October 29, 2009 at 6:07pm

Great stuff Ted!

Comment by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on October 29, 2009 at 5:49pm

Regarding school projects, I'm going to be visiting a class next year in Jan or Feb, comparable age students. I went a little simple. We're going to use shoe boxes with a hole cut in the lid with big rubber bands for the strings and two pencils for the nut and the bridge. So I would discuss with the students how a musical scale works and then show them how to change the pitch of their strings by dragging one of the pencils around. Then, I was thinking about making a little portable pickup out of a piezo and a mono jack that I could slip under one of the pencils on each student's box so they could hear it through an amp. In the mean time, I could show off some of my nicer guitars, etc.

Comment by Al Allen (Hangten) on October 29, 2009 at 5:45pm

Ted,

This could turn out to be a great rallying spot for all sorts of great CBG news. Thanks

Comment by Rev Mike on October 29, 2009 at 4:55pm

Hey Ted,
Great group you got started here...looking forward to seeing how the gospel is spreading in the media.

Comment by Bryan Duncan on October 29, 2009 at 4:46pm

This is just great. I volunteer once a week at a rural elementary school for a fourth grade class. I ran across CB Nation and thought it would be great to have a class project where every one can build their own CBG. So far I have been fortunate to have a local smoke shop donate 28 cigar boxes for this project. There are 22 students in the class but there is another 4th grade class that I might include (My girlfriend is the teacher for the first class). I'm thinking of having the students make a Diddley Bow but then started thinking that they could handle three strings also. Any thoughts out there on this? Being fourth graders, how much work should I do beforehand and what should I let the students do for themselves? I'm a visual artist, not a musician, although I have made a dulcimer from a kit and am trying to learn how to play it. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Bryan

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