About your guitar

Not all cigar box guitars are built equal. The information on this site, including in the training courses, is relevant to 3 string guitars tuned to root, fifth and octave (see the next page). It is also most relevant to guitars without frets that you play slide on, although if you do have frets they won't stop you slidin'. The advantage of having a fretless slide guitar is that your action (the distance between the neck and the strings) can be higher making it significantly easier to play with a slide. These guitars are also closer to the original cigar box guitars from the turn of the 20th century, and to their predecessors in Africa. Four string guitars with frets more closely resemble today's modern guitars and there are plenty of resources around for them already.

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