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I am getting increasing demand for my workshops making simple cigar box diddley bows. in UK at least the cigar boxes are getting harder to find and more expensive. I have had some success using cardboard boxes intended for computer keyboards. Anybody got other suggestions?

Added by Phil Thomas on June 19, 2014 at 10:42pm — 5 Comments

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Thanks for your comments Wolf...I must apologise to all for the spell checker on my ipad which stubbornly refuses to accept what I type and insists on saying what it thinks I meant to say...In my reply to Ian I was, of course, referring to building a Canjo not a 'cannon',...DOH!

Added by Phil Thomas on October 25, 2013 at 9:56pm — 2 Comments

Greetings from Wales

Hi everyone.

Glad to be here. I am Phil Thomas from Penarth, near Cardiff in South Wales, UK. Approaching 60 years of age of which 45 have been as a musician, singer and storyteller performing all over the world. Now in semi retirement I work part time on a variety of arts and music projects. By academic persuasion I am an ethnomusicologist. In the summer of 2012 I spent six weeks in the USA on a research fellowship where I met a CBG busker in New Orleans. From then on I was pretty much… Continue

Added by Phil Thomas on October 18, 2013 at 3:09am — 4 Comments

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