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Comment by Rand Moore on February 16, 2011 at 3:24pm

Good news. For about the last 3 weeks access to Ning-based web sites, including Cigar Box Nation, had been blocked in China. This corresponds to a couple of events, the unrest in Egypt and Chinese New Year vacation, so I'm not quite sure the reason the site was blocked, but this morning I find I can access it again. Yeah!

Comment by Rand Moore on January 4, 2011 at 4:36pm

Hi Mr. Burgess.

The next time you are in the region, let me know and maybe we can meet up. I'd love to see someone play the CBG as well as you do. My elementary playing skills really doesn't do these instruments justice. The next time I'm in the States, I be sure to download a bunch of CBG videos (both 'training'  'performance' videos) onto CD and take them back with me to China. I guess some of them I could re-post on a video server in China, assuming their owners agree. That should help fire up the interest in CBGs here. In fact, I may have a few video from my last visit, that I could upload. Let me check into that and contact the CBN members who made the videos for permission.

 

-Rand.

Comment by Keni Lee Burgess on January 4, 2011 at 1:25am

Very interesting. I just returned from a 15 day trip to Guangzhou. I am also a Tai Chi / Chi Kung instructor and went for further training. I didn't bring an instrument on this trip. Unfortunately, as you may know, youtube cannot be accessed in China, so videos would need to be posted via another site. Of course, for domestic communications this is not a problem to reach out to the Chinese speaking community. Thank you for your efforts.  

Comment by Rand Moore on January 4, 2011 at 12:41am

Here are a couple of links to a Wiki article on Cigar Box Guitars written in Chinese and in English. Now to mine some useful Hanzi...

-Rand.

Comment by Rand Moore on January 3, 2011 at 8:00pm

Hi All.

I put a message up on a message board at http://hexun.com/tanjita, one of probably dozens of guitar oriented message boards in China. I will try this some more in coming weeks to see if I can get some folks there interested this way. Let me know if you have come to this site from some Chinese message board.

 

Here's a machine translation of what I said:

大家好。

我把留言板留言就在 http://hexun.com/tanjita，吉他为主的几十个留言板可能在中国一。我会尽力在未来几周内，看看我是否有兴趣可以得到这样一些人一些这方面的更多。让我知道，如果你来到这从一些网站的留言板中。

 

-Rand.

Comment by Rand Moore on December 24, 2010 at 2:59am

Here is an artical written in Chinese about Cigar Box Guiitars. It should be of interest to those people visiting this site who are fluent in Chinese.

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