Blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you’ll get Harry Manx’s unique “mysticssippi” flavour.
For years, Manx has included a cigar box guitar in his arsenal of Hindustani slide guitars, delivering a hypnotic take on a Bruce Springsteen classic on it:
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Anyone have any information on how this instrument is strung/constructed/ tuned/wired/amped? And how he gets that "sitar-like" sound? Thanks....
I saw Harry Manx open for Richie Havens a few years back. His playing is mesmerizing. Awesome musician.
Hey Orcabait, I found this article from 2008 where he talks about it a little:
http://www.guitarplayer.com/miscellaneous/1139/harry-manx-on-his-9t...
"I’ve also got a cigar box guitar made by Johnny Lowe in Memphis. I souped it up quite a bit and now it’s playable and almost stays in tune. It has three guitar strings tuned F# , C# , F# , and a lower bass string tuned F# , because that’s the proper tension for it."