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Love the "wood fiber sound chamber for deep tone" description, and all six strings seem to be either .010 or .014 inch inch steel strings "for longer-lasting dependability." Don't recognize the chord the kid's fretting, but maybe the included instructions will explain. Lotsa luck.

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One step up from the cigar box model.

 Surprisingly our community college is offering a course in guitar cigar box music.  3 string guitars are supplied plus they provide instructions on how to build your own guitar.

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Hi, Thought some of you might find this interesting.  This is an old Smiley Burnett Radio show. Smiley played multiple instruments and was the sidekick for Roy, Gene Autry, and the Durango Kid.  Now the main reason I am sharing this is my interest in the old guitar players.  The Whippoorwills back Smiley in this show ... just as they did Roy Rogers in his show.  The Whippoorwills was a Jazz/Country band headed by Roy Lanham (who also played with the Sons of the Pioneers).  Roy L's was one of the players who's name kept coming up in guitar history so I figured I would pull out one of the shows where you could hear him play.  I think Gene Monbeck is the rhythm guitarist backing Roy.  There are a few of Lanham records on You Tube.

SMILEY BURNETT.mp3

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The other day I had the chance to talk with Suze Spencer … great gal.  She is the grand-daughter of Tim Spencer (One of the 3 original Sons of the pioneers and a fantastic song writer).  Anyhow she mentioned she has some of the original wax recordings the boys made in the beginning.

So after some digging through my collections I found Len Slye (aka Roy Rogers) playing rhythm guitar for the fancy fiddling of Carl Farr.  This was done sometime in the 1930s before Len changed his name to Roy and began making movies.

One of my favorite stories that Roy use to tell was when he wanted to sneak out of town and go hunting.  He had let his beard grow out, dumped all his fancy wear and put on sun glasses and started heading through the Los Angles airport; figuring no one would recognize him.  All of a sudden he hears this loud yell … “Len, Len Slye how the hell are you? What have you been up to ….”  It was one of his buddies from Duck Run, Ohio where Roy .. I mean Len grew up.  I can’t imagine no one not knowing who he was but … poor old guitar picking Len Slye couldn’t even make it out of town without someone recognizing him.  So here is Len and Carl …..  sorry it is 5 MB

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