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The Diddley Bow: a Primitive Guitar | Make:

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The diddley bow is a primitive one-string guitar rarely heard outside the rural South. It is slide guitar stripped down to its most elemental level.

Projects from Make: Magazine The Diddley Bow Build this slide guitar with just a board, a wire, and a jar. Print this Project Take me to the Steps Build the elemental slide guitar, from just a board, a wire, and a jar. Maybe you saw Jack White playing one in It Might Get Loud ; now make your own for pennies. About the Diddley Bow After reading Alan Lomax’s excellent book The Land Where the Blues Began , I developed an interest in the diddley bow, a primitive one-string guitar rarely heard outside the rural South. Shane Speal, founder of the current cigar box guitar movement, suggested that I g

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