Cigar Box Nation's video: The Gitty Gang Show Ep 124

~~~ Click "SHOW MORE" below to see timestamps that link to your favorite show segments ~~~ Every Friday afternoon at 2 PM (US Eastern) we go live with the Gitty Gang Show, a grab bag variety show full of cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments, how-to, songs, stories, jokes and more. ~~~ Timestamps ~~~ 3:35 Check out the newest addition to Gitty's self-published songbooks! It's the Children's Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook (Limited-Edition Spiral-Bound Version) linked below. 8:38 Here's Jimmy Driftwood playing a handmade six-string guitar with beautiful intonation built from a bed headboard. That video is followed by who we think is Jimmy D. playing a mouth bow with incredible style and accuracy. 12:17 Following the mouth bow performance in the previous segment, Ben discusses the history of that instrument and how it may well be the first stringed-instrument in history. 13:46 It's Watt Corner! 28:16 Check out this performance by A.j. Gaither, a true one-man-band and homemade instrument artisan. Learn more about A.j. through the link below. 32:44 The At The Bench segment returns! First, you get to hear more about Danny Woodman, the newest Gitty Gangster who's been such terrific addition to the Gitty workshop and an amazing musical pairing with Ben onstage. 39:50 Next up in At The Bench, Ben introduces the String Caddy, a new DIY kit he's working on to help you organize what may be a mess of strings in your workshop. 43:29 Even more in At The Bench: Ben reveals his working plans to release a DIY cigar box ukulele kit unlike any other available to-date. 48:43 Here's a musical typewriter created by Tom Thompson of Primitive Acoustics. As you'll see, this is the sort of avant-garde, out-of-the-box thinking that makes the homemade music movement so amazing. 50:49 See the winner of the builders' contest from the Samantha Fish Cigar Box Guitar Festival (formerly known as the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.) Congratulations to Gitty Gangster El Gordeaux who took the first-place prize with his 4-string hubcap guitar. 52:14 Ben poses a question to everyone: How can you learn to play five instruments at the same time. Watch to find out! 52:57 Learn about the alternative tuning, inspired by mandolins, that Ben is exploring for multiple instruments. 55:55 See the "dirty little secret" Ben shares from one of his first builds. 56:14 Check out even more songbooks Ben is working on! Does this man ever get tired?! Linked below is a new mandolin songbook, available only on Amazon. 59:58 Hear from Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar, and see his newest Poor Man's Guitar magazine. In this new issue, the late, great Liberian guitarist Wesseh is featured, along with a host of other incredible and inspiring stories. Subscribe through the link below. 1:04:31 Shane put together this must-see promo for Ben's Old-Time and Bluegrass Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbooks (linked below). 1:05:38 Ben shares some relevant advice for everyone, especially in the homemade musical instrument movement. 1:06:16 Last week's songbook winners are announced. 1:09:31 The Gang plays out the show. ~~~ Links ~~~ Children's Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook (Limited-Edition Spiral-Bound Version): https://www.cbgitty.com/books-posters-music-media/books/childrens-favorites-cigar-box-guitar-songbook-limited-edition-spiral-bound-version/ A.j. Gaither, one-man-band extraordinaire: https://www.facebook.com/ajgaithermusic Celtic Session Songbook for Mandolin and Related Instruments: Large-print Lyrics & Chords for 170 Beloved Irish and Celtic Favorites (Session Strummers): https://www.amazon.com/Session-Songbook-Mandolin-Related-Instruments/dp/B0851M1PSL/ Shane Speal's Poor Man's Guitar magazine: https://poormansguitar.com/poor-man-s-guide-magazine Old-Time and Bluegrass Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook - Volume 1: https://www.cbgitty.com/books-posters-music-media/books/old-time-and-bluegrass-favorites-cigar-box-guitar-songbook-volume-1/ Old-Time and Bluegrass Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook - Volume 2: https://www.cbgitty.com/books-posters-music-media/books/old-time-and-bluegrass-favorites-cigar-box-guitar-songbook-volume-2/ Join the 24,000 other cigar box guitar and handmade musical instrument enthusiasts who receive the C. B. Gitty email newsletter each week: https://www.cbgitty.com/newsletter-subscribe/ Sign up for the Cigar Box Nation newsletter. It's chock full of free lessons, instrument plans, building tips, videos, news, product features and special offers/coupons geared towards cigar box guitar builders: https://cigarboxnation.com/page/sign-up-for-the-cigar-box-nation-newsletter