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When I first started performing live with my cigar box guitar in 1995, I would shove a tie-tack microphone into the sound hole to amplify it. It was just a cheap $20 mic from Radio Shack that was originally intended to clip on a speaker’s tie or collar when giving seminars.  I was nervously playing coffee-shop gigs at the time, and the mic was good enough for the job at hand. Picture above: Performing with a tie-tack mic in my original Macanudo, Rehoboth Autumn Jazz Fest, …