Are you a Cigar box Guitar Patriot? if you are, how has the cigar box guitar changed your life, share with us your story!
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Are you a Cigar box Guitar Patriot? if you are, how has the cigar box guitar changed your life, share with us your story!
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If by American patriot you mean a man who loves and serves his country. Then I sure am one. I am a navy veteran of the Afghanistan conflict. I am also a US Navy Sailor and will be until they throw me out. I spent a year of my life introducing other soldiers and sailors over in the sand the beauty of the cigar box guitar. The cbg for soldier group here has made it possible for many of the people I met to receive a free instrument from the nation. Again my thanks goes out to them for all they do. As far a cbgs go. They changed my life forever the day I first heard Shane play one on the old site. I downloaded plans and built one and I never looked back. it was like telling the bad english student to just write your story, do not worry about spelling or punctuation. If the story is there just tell it. The absence of rules allowed my inner musical voice room to shake off the insecurities and just play. To this day picking one up and playing it feels like I imagine it must feel like to ride a bull or wrestle an alligator or drive a car 100 miles an hour and then just chuck the steering wheel out the window God bless the cigart boxguitar and all who love them!!!!! Amen.
No, but I`m an American patriot U.S.M.C 70 - 74 .
I'll respond seriously to the original question. The cbg that Jon Pruett built and sold to me totally changed my musical life. I quit playing 6 string guitars because of it. Many many songs that I've written since I got it would not have been written otherwise. I can play literally any song that is in my head within minutes, sometimes seconds, in any key I choose. I can add a half step or whole step change to a song while maintaing the chord progression pattern. I never was able to do that with a 6 string. My tuning is a big part of this. C,G,C,Eflat. Barred is a minor, add one finger, one fret up for a major. Litterally, it has rewritten my musical path. I couldn't be happier.
nice! that's what make this whole revival and moment move forward! its great to hear it change your music all the way around...it has for me too!
Quite frankly,i'd say this website may have saved my life.
My last full-time job was with ACS/Xerox, a call center sub-contracting for several healthcare service providers. The Health Care companies demanded perfect customer service, a knowledge of the product superior to that of the company itself and a full knowledge of government regulations, as well as the desire to do whatever it took to get the client what he or she needed.
Sadly, the call center actually made its money based on call volume, and penalized its workers for taking longer than 8 minutes with a client. Most clients were shuffled off from department to department in order for the employee to make production-the workers who actually cared enough to do the job right were usually penalized. In addition, due to being in a 'Right To Work' (on a plantation) State, any contractual benefits or guarantees(freedom from a hostile workplace environment, freedom to dispute outcomes, 24 hour notice before schedule changes, six-month Cost of Living reviews etc etc) were completely ignored. There were employees who had worked there nearly a decade making the exact same salary as a trainee off the street-just over minimum wage...
Well, after one stressful day last year... I spent over 45 minutes on yet another client who was in dire need of medical assistance and who had spent over THREE HOURS being shuffled from phone to phone.It took multiple conference calls with several departments before the matter was resolved and benefits were allowed. My reward for going out of my way to get the job done? A lecture from my (often-absent) supervisor, telling me I needed to work on my 'handle time'-apparently I was being graded as if I were on an assembly line rather than dealing with people in need...
Don't even remember the drive back-what I do remember is, when my vision cleared, I was standing over the kitchen table with a knife in my hand...and a three-string, double-can Canjo Dulcimer ready to play. I had downloaded the plans from this website two days before...needless to say, I dove back into the Nation and became a member immediately. It's amazing how much stress relief you can get from creating cigar-box Ukuleles, Tennis racket Guitars and two-stringed coffee-can fiddles...It also made a small but steady second income, which came in handy after the same supervisor had me fired on a drummed-up 'Misconduct' charge(said misconduct being reporting him to his boss for illegal 'after-the-fact' schedule manipulation in an attempt to cheat his team out of bonuses for attendance. Whistleblower Protection Act? Workplace Rights under contract? Assurances of fair treatment? Just lines on paper...)...
At any rate, it's nice to be able to grab a pocketknife and create a thing that makes music-and it gave me the confidence to grab a Brazing Torch and some free bike frames(garbage day) and start building a handmade recumbent bike this month! Quite frankly, Cigar Box Nation may have made the difference between me being known as' that weird but nice guy who makes stuff'-instead of 'that guy that just snapped at work one day who took twelve bullets to the chest before they finally got him'... Mark my words, some poor unfortunate at that company will eventually take that honor instead, and may God help us all on that day.
TMI no doubt-but thanks again for making me welcome here.
Sorry, Pick, but I played this vid, and the second it was over, my wife started singing, "Ohhhh, I'm Canadian and I'm okay... I work all night and I sleep all day..."
I have no idea what she meant by that, but you know how some wimmins is...
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