The cigar-box guitar evolved in the decades before the ... and if it’s properly tuned you can’t play out of key. Like a diatonic harmonica, its notes are limited to one scale.

Have you ever heard of a cigar box guitar? With its origins dating back to Civil War soldiers, these specialty instruments have been around for close to 160 years. In the central Massachusetts ...

When AJ Gaither built himself a guitar out of an old cigar box he was instantly hooked. The raw sound it made was something he identified with. "It's kind of the sound of struggle and hardship ...