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Aaron Flinner - Posted - 11/24/2023: 10:17:58
I built a cigar box fiddle by looking at how a regular fiddle is built with the bass bare and sound post and string length and such. I used an old cigar box from the 1960s, and a neck o purchased. I cut the sound post from a parade flag from the 1940s, and carved the bass bar from a piece of cedar from and old broken up chest. I guess it would have stories to tell if it could talk. But the music I play on it is its voice. I'm fairly new to the fiddle, (I'm more of a mountain dulcimer player) but I enjoy playing something I made.
RinconMtnErnie - Posted - 11/26/2023: 09:58:04
Sounds like you had fun building that cigar box fiddle. They are fun.
ChinnRest - Posted - 11/28/2023: 18:11:33
It’s got stories! Now play and make it tell them.
I built a whiskey box fiddle a few years ago. I don’t play it often enough.
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