New Contributor : King of the Cigar Box Guitar!
Recently I had the honor of doing some promotional work for a York musician who’s been getting some national coverage for doing things a little different. His name is Shane Speal and he’s known around the web and in the guitar world as the King of the Cigar Box guitar. What’s a cigar box guitar? Well, it’s a guitar made out of a cigar box. What’s it sound like? The blues. But that’s just the beginning . These instruments are not toys and over the next couple months, with Shane’s help we’re going to show you how to build and play these distinctly American instruments through a series of online video lessons.
from Shane Speals website-
Shane Speal is a musician from York, PA. He is married to Melissa (Bilello) Speal. The couple has two sons, Shane Jr. (age 7) and Brennen (age 4).
Speal is the self-proclaimed “King of the Cigar Box Guitar” and the creator of www.cigarboxnation.com.
The History of the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution:
In 2003, Shane Speal posted the first free plans for a simple 3-string cigar box guitar on the internet using a free 1-page Geocities website. In the site, Speal declared himself the “King of the Cigar Box Guitar” simply because noone else was too stupid to claim it first! He also declared there was an uprising “Cigar Box Guitar Revolution” made of musicians who were looking for a deeper music made on the most primitive of instruments.
That single web page presence grew into a fuller Geocities site and eventually into a Yahoo based Cigar Box Guitar Forum. At its height, the forum boasted over 3000 members. After 5 successful years, the Yahoo forum is becoming eclipsed by Speal’s newest endeavor, CigarBoxNation.com.
For more info on Shane visit cigarboxguitar.com or to join the revolution visit CigarBoxNation.com and stay tuned for the first video in the series “How to build a Cigar Box Guitar for 10 bucks in ten minutes”.
Posted on: 21.10.2009
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