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THE BEST ACOUSTIC TONE: Piezo Rod Pickup & Pre-Amp in a Neck-Through Cigar Box Guitar
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,
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9th May 2018
VIDEO LESSON: Lionel Ritchie's "Easy Like Sunday Morning" on 4-string cigar box guitar
This is what happens when Shane messes around at work! He stumbles across a Lionel Richie classic. LOL!!!
Tune your 4-string cigar box guitar to Open G (G-D-G-B) and play along to
Easy Like Sunday Morning.
Make sure to sing the "AHH AHH AHHs," too!
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6th Sep 2017