Scott Ainslie plays cigar box guitar at the Ships of the Sea Museum

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Blues Musician and Historian Scott Ainslie playing his "Didley-Bow" and a Museum model 3-string cigar box guitar at the Ships of the Sea Museum in Savannah Georgia on April 7, 2011 in advance of a building workshop on August 20, 2011. For more information, email tonypizzo@shipsofthesea.org or visit www.shipsofthesea.org. For more info on Scott, visit http:cattailmusic.com.

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  • I just discovered your videos this morning after buying a beautiful cigar box electric fretless slide guitar. You are amazing! I will be buying your CDs. You're my new favorite musician! This particular video is really well done and makes me appreciate my new guitar even more!

  • Great history n' instructional vid. And it sounds damn fine too !

  • Scott is a King. Living encyclopaedia of history of blues.

    Thnx for all lessons he shared with us.

  • I am now convinced to get a CBG. I own two nationals which are perfect sounding but the tone and looks of the CBGs are something i must have. That one stinger is just awesome. Thanks for the education -- you made me smile -- just awesome.

  • @pwinokc Make One! It's really easy and really cheap. $3 for a box, $6 for some strings, you can get tuners from ebay for $10, or go to your local guitar shop and get some mismatched tuners from their junk box (I guarantee they have one). Use a piece of hard wood for the bridge, use a bolt for the nut and you're off. Later, solder a broken piezo element to a jack ($6 from radio shack?) and you can hook it up to an amp... I've been building them for a year now and they're FUN.

  • this dude rocks

  • i never hear anything rock so hard on one string. just goes to show it's not the instrument, it's the musician. even a "piece of crap" homemade guitar with one string can rock. it's just how you play it.

  • Education in Deep Blues right there! Wonder what the slide is made out of. It looks like a bottleneck, but it has a round closed end. Thanks for sharing

  • really nicely done! I enjoyed this a lot.

  • thanks, that was great! when I play slide, seems like I mainly play 3rd, 4th, and 5th strings, this would be neat. Where can I get one?

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