Simple three-string design enables quick assembly for beginners
Uses a real wooden cigar box resonator for authentic folk sound
Plays real, sweet-sounding acoustic tones for musical enjoyment
Holds tuning for a couple of days, allowing tuning stability
Includes embedded video for step-by-step guidance
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This sweet-sounding, three-stringed mini Cigar Box Guitar Project revives an American musical tradition. As a volunteer music teacher, Ed Vogel sometimes meets kids who can't afford instruments. So he decided to design one that they could inexpensively build themselves, based on the traditional cigar box guitar. Before the 1950s, when facto