GOLIAD - He can play just about anything - from blues to rock - on a small guitar made from an old cigar box, drain covers and a door jam. "I just make it up as I go along," said Marty Brophy, cigar ...

South Amherst Middle School students, with the help of a grant from FirstEnergy Corp., got a unique opportunity May 29 to create their own cigar box guitars and learn how to play them. “This was a ...

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 ...

WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

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 ...

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 ...

Tracy La Rue is a locksmith by trade, but every day after work, he can be found in his workshop at home, working with cigar boxes. While not a cigar smoker, he’s made hundreds of boxes into guitars ...

Sharon and Larry Allen make a good team. He makes cigar box guitars and she plays them. At 2024 May Fair on Campus Corner the couple had a tent set up alongside other vendors displaying a variety of ...

Musician Speal shares his decades of experience in building, playing, and customizing classic DIY instruments in this delightful guide. It was hearing Jimi Hendrix’s “Red House” that caused him to ...

Who knew you could make a guitar out of a discarded box? What's more — there's an entire association dedicated to the “do it yourself” instrument! A fundraising event kicked off Friday evening at ...

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 ...

There isn’t much about the small house on an average street in a typical Royal Oak neighborhood that would make people think anything out of the ordinary is happening inside. But the cigar box guitars ...