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Permalink Reply by George Mesheau on August 17, 2015 at 9:53am

never saw that vid. before. pretty interesting stuff.. lot of work and patience to make an instrument from matchsticks and have it hold together and sound like that.

good luck with your future building with these or similar methods.. keep us posted

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on August 17, 2015 at 4:25pm

I would think some of the best places to look for info on how this stuff was done is a large library. There were a lot of books archiving American and European arts and culture. 

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Permalink Reply by Zachariah on August 17, 2015 at 5:21pm

True, I have done good research on the subject. However, it's almost an anonymous art form.

America has some cultures most will never know. The hobo culture is as old if not older than the country it's self. It has a history that is not well documented. Every couple of decades it peeks. More recently the 60s, then the 90s had a big increase in train folk and now. Things within the culture don't really die, they just evolve. I would like to make it down to the national hobo convention in Iowa one of these days. And get some inside on some of the art history.

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