It is said that the Cigar box guitar was invented in the mid 1800s, they came about as folk who wanted to play music and dance, mainly black people working in the cotton fields had no instruments to play nor could afford any. Cigar boxes started to appear in the late 1840s when cigars started to be shipped in smaller boxes of 20-50 cigars, prior to this date cigars where shipped in larger crates and barrels. It appears that the origin of the cigar box guitar was in fact a cigar box banjo, the African slaves that now lived...
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