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Shane Speal (born May 20, 1970) is an American musician, historian, and instrument builder who is best known for building and promoting cigar box guitars. [1] He is the author of the D.I.Y. musical instrument book Making Poor Man's Guitars (2018, Fox Chapel Publishing)] and is a writer for the magazine Guitar World.
A collection of cigar box guitars. The cigar box guitar is a simple chordophone that uses an empty cigar box as a resonator. The earliest had one or two strings; modern models typically have three or more. Generally, the strings are connected to the end of a broomstick or a 1×2 inch wood slat and to the cigar box resonator.
In 2007, he began handcrafting three- and four-string cigar box guitars using exotic hardwoods and selling them at arts and crafts shows and from his website. In 2009, Snowden composed and recorded Summer in the Fields—Cigar Box Guitar Instrumentals, his first album of cigar box guitar music. He has since put out a number of additional records.
A lowebow is a variation of the cigar box guitar, created by John Lowe in the 1990s. [1] It involves a cigar box with two wooden rods projecting from it. Each wooden rod typically holds one string: a bass string attached to one rod and a standard acoustic guitar string attached to the other.
Stax currently builds and sells cigar box guitars. [8] He rejoined the Pretty Things on their 2012 Australian tour, [ 9 ] taking the stage on a couple of songs to play bass guitar and harmonica and also guested for a song on their 2018 Farewell Tour in Melbourne.
Pikasso guitar Pat Metheny with the 42-string Pikasso guitar. In 1984 Pat Metheny requested a guitar that had "as many strings as possible". Manzer came up with the Pikasso, a guitar with 42 strings arranged in four string sections, including a hexaphonic pickup to interface with Metheny's Synclavier synthesizer. The Pikasso has two holes for ...
Paul was Miller's godfather and his first guitar teacher. [63] [64] Ford gave birth to their first child on November 30, 1954, but the girl was born prematurely and died when she was four days old. [62] They adopted a girl, Colleen, in 1958, and their son, Robert (Bobby), was born the following year. Paul and Ford divorced in December 1964. [53]
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand.