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"Hello! We are Nicki & Les from Manchester, UK. Les has been making and playing cigar box guitar for 10 years, playing traditional blues. Recently we have been trying to use it in our electronic music :-)"

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What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).: The unique sound and look. The fact that you can make your own instruments and can tune them any way you like

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At 5:09am on November 12, 2019, BrianQ. said…: Welcome to the nation, plenty of info in the Resources tab, go to the Posts tab to join some groups & make some noise :)

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