A po-boy is a classic New Orleans sandwich, usually a long bun, often with fried oysters. And Shotgun shacks are still common there, narrow rectangular houses that used to be dwellings for poor people. Now they are in vogue. You had a good Delta/ New Orleans feel to your song.
Yep got it right with the nand gate. It was not meant to be an audio chip but it can be used to make a neat set of oscillators with each stage feeding the next giving some pretty cool sounds and patterns. Hoping to put some vids up soon.
Hi Steve ,the resonator is actually a tin available in OZ .It costs just 5 bucks ,and you get 30 mosquito coils to boot!!! Cheers John P.S I have a couple of hundred coils if you need any!!
Hmmm... I don't build cigar box fiddles (CBF). But, just this week I did comment on a guy's photo of his first CBF (a work in progress) and suggested talk with Diane in Chicago (she's CB Nation's resident expert on them) and I probably linked in her photo to my comment and that's how you thought it was my photo. If you go to the CBN's menu bar and select Community, then Members, there is a Search box. Just enter "Diane" and press return. The first Diane listed should be Diane in Chicago. Click on her link and you will be at her page. Shes's build several CBFs, and has photos of most of them. You can comment on them to get her attention.
If you visited my personal page and saw my photos, you know I build mostly diatonic stick dulcimers in various forms. On two of them, I cut the corners to for the sound holes. I guess that's what you are talking about by the phrase "letting the corners". I've been building for a year now, and for such a relative newbie, I guess I have a few nice builds. Funny how my early builds look like junk to me now. I guess I should re-build a few, I know I can do better.
Hi Steve, I got a kick out of your comment about using the grinder first, then the drill to shape your headstock and tail piece. Yeah, I totally love this "stream-of-consciosness" guitar building. There's just something kind of magical about approaching the assembly of an instrument with a similar degree of improvisation used to play it. :)
I don't take enough time on CBnation to write comments for so many nice videos...I love your vids dogfinger... Thanks for your comment... Happy to be your new cbn friend...
I've seen you'd a ghosts story too...°<[:-) [---]==={
Hi Steve, thank you for the encouragement. It was through that pickup (which was from a really old, cheap Hohner strat copy), but it's also through a Zoom G2 effects box with some reverb and a really small bit of delay. It's been a great buy, like buying 10 effects boxes in one! The guitar sound pretty good acoustic mind you, just a bit quiet.
ah yeah, really easy. It comes all wired up so you just have to drill some holes and put it all together. Don't think they do that one any more, but they're bringing out a new one, which Wes Carl did a demo of recently. It's pretty expensive with postage from the US though...the last one I bought got stopped and I had to pay tax and holding fee too : -/
Just done an amp by buying a cheap busker amp from eBay and taking it apart and putting it in aCigar Box (I put some pics on my page of it today)
My favourite "double entendre" lyrics are from a song by the US blues band Better Off Dead. The song purports to be about a juke joint, but the chorus is:
Hi open mic is every thursday , some weeks have been not very well attended others very well , hit and miss - give me a call if you like 07504 007348 regards Tony
Hi Steve, thanks for the note. I've got an awful lot from your picture and your description - dowel through the sides, I would never have thought of that either. And cheers for the comments, Tarantino indeed! I'm dining out on that one.
What a classic! I still don't know how I could miss that. Trust me on that one "eternal blue" is still one of my all time favourites. I guess I have to tell some of my stuck-in-the-eighties friends. Good to see you still have a taste in music.
It's this Friday night I'm going to the Barge so it aint me who's triggered his memory...Chicken Bone's playin so the guy may have heard this in a sober moment and remembered wanting a Dogfinger 3-stringer...if I see him there I'll mention it.
I have some tuned to DF#ad and some GDgb, but the D tuning sounds the best on the fours. On the 3's I like DAd to get the spooky blues sound. The boxes are small so the lightest strings seem to work the best
Cigar Box Guitar and classical music met again after 150 years!
In the middle of XIX century there were musicians who classical pieces performed on homemade instruments such as Cigar Box Guitar. But, unfortunately, there are no records of these unique performances did not survive. How do sounds classical music of the Renaissance on cigar box guitar?
"Das Wohltemperirte Cigar Box Guitar" Album ( translation: Well-Tempered sigar box guitar ) was recorded in a home studio by Eugene Nemov.
The list of works you will see all the familiar songs and names of composers such as Franz Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Albinoni and names of familiar music lovers Renaissance: Pascal Bouquet and Francesco da Milano.
Pascal Bouquet - French lutenist, he lived in XV-th century. Pascal Bouquet composed many excellent works for lute and baroque guitar. Musical notations this musician survived to this day. "Brande des Hermites" and "Volte Praetorius" - it's two works from the collection of popular dances of France, Pascal Bouquet written specifically for learning to play the lute.
Francesco Canova da Milano (Italian Francesco Canova da Milano) - Italian Renaissance lute, one of the major European composers XVI veka.Franchesko Canova da Milano is one of the best composers of lute music, and possibly greatest lute virtuoso of all time. His work, and the amazing beauty of a consistently high level, and are often performed today.
Just the album includes two copyright works Eugene Nemov - "French dance" and "English dance". They are written in a popular style of lute music of the Renaissance .
All works have been performed at 3-string classic guitars from cigar boxes, made by Eugene Nemov. Description and images of these instruments You can see on the site www.cigarboxguitars.ru and personal Evgeny Nemov page on the www.cigarboxnation.com ;
FUMIKAZU TAJIKA
Best Regards,
Tj
Mar 27, 2011
Bluesheart
Mar 28, 2011
George Yeager
Mar 29, 2011
Earl William Birth III
Apr 7, 2011
Uncle John
Steve,
A po-boy is a classic New Orleans sandwich, usually a long bun, often with fried oysters. And Shotgun shacks are still common there, narrow rectangular houses that used to be dwellings for poor people. Now they are in vogue. You had a good Delta/ New Orleans feel to your song.
John
Apr 8, 2011
Uncle John
Apr 8, 2011
dg
Apr 8, 2011
dg
Apr 8, 2011
FUMIKAZU TAJIKA
Hi steve,
Thank you so much for your comment !!
Best Regards,
Tj
Apr 14, 2011
bemuzic
Apr 22, 2011
Mike Bingham
Apr 26, 2011
smojo
Apr 27, 2011
john stax
Apr 28, 2011
bemuzic
Apr 28, 2011
Keni Lee Burgess
Apr 28, 2011
Rand Moore
Hmmm... I don't build cigar box fiddles (CBF). But, just this week I did comment on a guy's photo of his first CBF (a work in progress) and suggested talk with Diane in Chicago (she's CB Nation's resident expert on them) and I probably linked in her photo to my comment and that's how you thought it was my photo. If you go to the CBN's menu bar and select Community, then Members, there is a Search box. Just enter "Diane" and press return. The first Diane listed should be Diane in Chicago. Click on her link and you will be at her page. Shes's build several CBFs, and has photos of most of them. You can comment on them to get her attention.
If you visited my personal page and saw my photos, you know I build mostly diatonic stick dulcimers in various forms. On two of them, I cut the corners to for the sound holes. I guess that's what you are talking about by the phrase "letting the corners". I've been building for a year now, and for such a relative newbie, I guess I have a few nice builds. Funny how my early builds look like junk to me now. I guess I should re-build a few, I know I can do better.
Well, happy building & playing...
-Rand.
Apr 29, 2011
Jack Horton
Apr 29, 2011
Pinkie Stanley
Hi Steve, I got a kick out of your comment about using the grinder first, then the drill to shape your headstock and tail piece. Yeah, I totally love this "stream-of-consciosness" guitar building. There's just something kind of magical about approaching the assembly of an instrument with a similar degree of improvisation used to play it. :)
~Pinkie
Apr 30, 2011
Strolling Tone
May 2, 2011
Phill Hill Charlie
I've seen you'd a ghosts story too...°<[:-) [---]==={
May 14, 2011
Ade
May 20, 2011
Ade
May 21, 2011
HOLLOWBELLY
hey man congrats on the radio interview-you sounded well relaxed.I was grinning from ear to ear when you broke into shotgun shack- nice one.
May 26, 2011
bemuzic
Jun 30, 2011
trev johnson
Jun 30, 2011
Little Soul Eric
Jul 1, 2011
bemuzic
Jul 1, 2011
ani mcneice
Great to chat with you as well, I enjoyed it!
Wish I had chance to see your lovely guitars tho!
Catch up again very soon.
Ani xx
Jul 12, 2011
bemuzic
Aug 17, 2011
bemuzic
Aug 17, 2011
JOSE MANUEL VAZQUEZ
Aug 17, 2011
Boxy Music
Aug 22, 2011
bemuzic
Aug 22, 2011
Penny Nelson
Aug 22, 2011
Uncle John
Aug 22, 2011
bemuzic
ah yeah, really easy. It comes all wired up so you just have to drill some holes and put it all together. Don't think they do that one any more, but they're bringing out a new one, which Wes Carl did a demo of recently. It's pretty expensive with postage from the US though...the last one I bought got stopped and I had to pay tax and holding fee too : -/
Just done an amp by buying a cheap busker amp from eBay and taking it apart and putting it in aCigar Box (I put some pics on my page of it today)
Aug 23, 2011
Penny Nelson
Aug 29, 2011
Spike
My favourite "double entendre" lyrics are from a song by the US blues band Better Off Dead. The song purports to be about a juke joint, but the chorus is:
Liquor at the front
Poker round the back
A parking place for my pink Cadillac
:-O
Sep 8, 2011
bemuzic
Sep 8, 2011
Ice Bob
Sep 14, 2011
Tony Davies
Sep 15, 2011
Penny Nelson
Sep 16, 2011
Brian Tin-Pot Pearse
Oct 8, 2011
Boxy Music
Hi Steve, thanks for the note. I've got an awful lot from your picture and your description - dowel through the sides, I would never have thought of that either. And cheers for the comments, Tarantino indeed! I'm dining out on that one.
Oct 30, 2011
barrenland
What a classic! I still don't know how I could miss that. Trust me on that one "eternal blue" is still one of my all time favourites. I guess I have to tell some of my stuck-in-the-eighties friends. Good to see you still have a taste in music.
Nov 5, 2011
Dave Hall
Thanks for the welcome Steve.
Love my Line 6, Picked it up at a boot sale for £20, nearly broke his wrist giving him the money !!!
Dave
Nov 5, 2011
Chillicool
Hello Steve,
It's this Friday night I'm going to the Barge so it aint me who's triggered his memory...Chicken Bone's playin so the guy may have heard this in a sober moment and remembered wanting a Dogfinger 3-stringer...if I see him there I'll mention it.
Kev.
Nov 6, 2011
jabes
thank you steve, i only been doing this 6 months or so, great hobby lets you get creative and end up with something good lookin' and useful to boot
sorry didn't reply earlier the comment wall is way down the page.
Dec 3, 2011
Hippy Chip
I have some tuned to DF#ad and some GDgb, but the D tuning sounds the best on the fours. On the 3's I like DAd to get the spooky blues sound. The boxes are small so the lightest strings seem to work the best
Dec 5, 2011
Cpt. Nemoff
Album Notes
In the middle of XIX century there were musicians who classical pieces performed on homemade instruments such as Cigar Box Guitar. But, unfortunately, there are no records of these unique
performances did not survive. How do sounds classical music of the Renaissance on cigar box guitar?
"Das Wohltemperirte Cigar Box Guitar" Album ( translation: Well-Tempered sigar box guitar ) was recorded in a home studio by Eugene Nemov.
The list of works you will see all the familiar songs and names of composers such as Franz Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Albinoni and names of familiar music lovers Renaissance: Pascal Bouquet and Francesco da Milano.
Pascal Bouquet - French lutenist, he lived in XV-th century. Pascal Bouquet composed many excellent works for lute and baroque guitar. Musical notations this musician survived to this day. "Brande des Hermites" and "Volte Praetorius" - it's two works from the collection of popular dances of France, Pascal Bouquet written specifically for learning to play the lute.
Francesco Canova da Milano (Italian Francesco Canova da Milano) - Italian Renaissance lute, one of the major European composers XVI veka.Franchesko Canova da Milano is one of the best composers of lute music, and possibly greatest lute virtuoso of all time. His work, and the amazing beauty of a consistently high level, and are often performed today.
Just the album includes two copyright works Eugene Nemov - "French dance" and "English dance". They are written in a popular style of lute music of the Renaissance .
All works have been performed at 3-string classic guitars from cigar boxes, made by Eugene Nemov. Description and images of these instruments You can see on the site www.cigarboxguitars.ru and personal Evgeny Nemov page on the www.cigarboxnation.com ;
Enjoy!
Jul 22, 2014