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Cigar Box Music

Although homemade instruments have been played since the earliest days of our country, it was the lowly wooden cigar box that became part of a folk music tradition. Originally packed in crates and barrels, cigars began to be packaged in smaller, more portable wooden boxes about 1840. These discarded and readily available wooden cigar boxes became cheap alternatives for amateur builders making simple guitars, banjos, and fiddles. The earliest evidence of a cigar box instrument is a Civil War drawing of two Union soldiers in camp, with one playing a cigar box fiddle. With the Great Depression in the 1930s, there was a serious resurgence in cheap cigar box instruments. With an old wooden cigar box, a broom handle and some cheap steel wire you could play some serious music for your friends. Hudson & Clark continue this tradition, performing the music of America’s past.