Stringent anti-smoking laws in Ireland wont allow shops to display  cigars, the boxes are cosigned to back rooms. Tobacconists are virtually extinct so it is hard to find a shop that might  have a few boxes waiting to be skipped.

I was lucky enoughh to get a  few boxes from the Decent Cigar Empirium in Dublin, at the top end of  Grafton Strret. Anyone visiting Dublin should head in, you might not get a Cigar Box from  them, but boy what a place, smells of Cuban coffee and…

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Luther Dickson from 'Black Crowes' talking and showing CBGs.

Starts at 8:10.

Hey everyone (anyone who might be reading),

Loving this CBNation site !

I'm a terribly musically challenged individual.  You could set me out in the wilderness and although I could find a way to make a knife, build a hut, tell me my supper depended on contributing something musical and I guess I'd starve.

Thank goodness I discovered the 3 String instruments. 

I currently have a very pretty (I mean manly) 3 String Stick Dulcimer…

This week I'm a blessed gal,....(most weeks i am, this one especially so) .............read on:

A parcel arrived this week from Georgia and sent by one Mr.BeStillroy Within the splendid box lay a beautiful handmade 3 string custom CBG reso that BeStillRoy felt led to gift in my direction.....!!!:-) it is dubbed "Cinderella"..(.and i spose it DOES have my name on it! --be sure and see his posts of pics for close ups) LOL (my YT user name cinderellalifestyle)  I am spending my tax…

This weekend I attended a party at a friend's house themed "bring your own musical instrument."  I wasn't sure about bringing my CBG since the host is a talented guitar player, so I just ate a mess of beans for lunch.  Then I decided to bring my CBG in case I got performance anxiety and needed a backup instrument.

So I arrived with the family and was surprised that no one else had brought anything.  Not even a set of maracas or spoons.  Nada.  The host immediately reached his…

LT Virginia Sullivan's three-string CBG has been shipped to her in Afghanistan.

Here is a photo, but if you're interested in more, and some details, go to my blog http://totalrojoguitars.blogspot.com for a look.…

In the Part 2 lessons for 3 string CBG, I retune the GDg tuning to ADf# tuning.

This is Open D Tuning because it contains the 3 tone (1,3,5) from the Major D scale (1-D  2-E  3-F#  4-G  5-A  6-B  7-C#  8-D) needed to form a Major D chord.

From low to high the notes are stacked 5-A  1-D  3-F# 

In the lessons, I explain a system of movable chords…

It all started on Thursday night.

I'd corralled a couple of friends into coming to see Hillstomp, from Portland OR.  Those boys flat out kill it!  Henry playing the banjo, guitars and cigar box guitar, John playing the "drum" set (which is cobbled together from old radiator parts, plastic buckets, maybe a legit drum or two, and a shitload of duct tape).

Got to talking about 2 man bands, and the possibility of my two-man band opening for them.  So, we'll see…

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So I have built a number of cigar box resonators. Last Friday I had a chance to meet Husky Burnette and get his impressions of some of my builds. (Thanks Reverend Nix) What was cool for me is we sat around for a while with a number of my builds, he played them and we would talk. I think I had three resonators there one of them had a piezo in it. Husky had his amp in the car so I asked if he would try it out and let me know what he thought. Here is a clip when he first plugged in.…

Hey all you slide players out there. I recently got into geocaching (www.geocaching.com) and thought it would be cool to have a copper slide travel the world playing as many CBGs as possible. So i created one called Slide and Seek (TB40859) and placed it in one of my cache's. If you find it on it's travels please use it and take a photograph. I have posted a photo on m page.

Andy

Keep on rockin

A while back I contacted Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC to see how I could go about donating some of my/our instruments to military personnel who were recovering from their injuries in the hospital. Oddly enough, their response was:

"We sincerely thank you for your sentiment and dedication in deciding to

have a positive impact on those in the Armed Services. However, upon

review of your application, it has been determined that we cannot

receive your…

My 12 year old daughter brought home an assignment this past friday, seems they are being tasked to build home made musical instruments. And her choice was an up-right tub bass of all things. So, to break in our newly acquired, used shop equipment, we are building a tub bass as our first instrument. We found an old bed frame with some good wood and wares for the build just a couple blocks in the hood. The neck has a natural warp that will fit onto a 5 gln bucket for the tub. My daughter was…