KAREN MEYERS HAS THE STORY. ♪ KAREN: TOETAPPING, FINGER SNAPPING MUSIC, GRITTY TUNES HUMMING FROM A HOMEMADE INSTRUMENT -- A CIGAR BOX GUITAR. BEN: IT SOUNDS PRIMAL, AND YOU CAN’T REALLY GET THOSE ...

One of the best things about making music is that it’s so easy to do. There are countless ways to make interesting sounds out of nearly anything if you’re willing to experiment a little bit — just ask ...

Ever played a cigar box guitar? The customarily homemade instrument follows the design of a regular guitar. But they traditionally use a cigar box as the resonator. Of course, creative musicians who ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...

York resident Shane Speal has been making and playing cigar box guitars for more than two decades. "I was searching for something that was the most primal guitar sound out there. I stumbled upon the ...

Aurora resident Victor Martinez and rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix have something musical in common -both have played cigar box guitars. While Hendrix is said to have been so desperate to play guitar ...

Once a month, there's a booth at Findlay Market selling unconventional instruments crafted from cigar boxes, plastic toy models and even deer skulls. The business, Don't Fret Guitars, began as a hobby ...

Etc: Opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. May 25, features food and drinks, a live music demonstration, meet the artist and curator Old-school musicians put cigar boxes to work as acoustic resonators. Jug ...

Larry McPheeters will share a part of American history as an artist in residence Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Valhalla Twin Cabins at the Tallac Historic site. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three ...

Charlie Rehfeld’s three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie ...

Tonight, Ben Gitty Baker runs a thriving business in Rochester building cigar box guitars and kits. He shows Karen Meyers how it all works. Plus, it started with his grandmother's recipes for jams, ...

Three strings, three chords, and a box of junk. Toss in a little ingenuity, and you have everything you need for a back porch summertime blues session. The art of making guitars from cigar boxes dates ...