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Most comprehensive reference available for making several different types of cigar box fiddles that are easy to play and sound great.

This book provides a general introduction to cigar box fiddles, their history, the differences between the solid wood 19th Century style fiddles and “modern” cigar box fiddles made from cheap plywood. The majority of the book deals with the actual making of two different types of cigar box fiddle, as well as a variation, a whiskey bottle box fiddle. 150 pages with over 100 illustrations.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is for experienced craftsmen and craftswomen with proper woodworking tools!

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ATTENTION!: You most likely got to this page via a search engine rather than visiting the Adventurous Muse Storefront. This is a custom-made instrument, available ONLY at our new store, Don Rickert Musical Instruments (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com).

Save yourself a lot of money and 50+ hours of your time!

For the already low price of the completed 1860s style cigar box fiddle body, you get the most comprehensive book on making PLAYABLE and nice-sounding cigar box fiddles (not an interesting looking but unplayable instrument to hang on the wall), Cigar Box Fiddles: About Them and How to Make Them..

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Fiddle chord charts are for the chords most commonly used in Old Time, Irish, Scottish and other “folk” styles of fiddling. Includes charts for A and D cross-tuning

In addition to the standard violin tuning (E-A-D-G), charts for the E-A-E-A, D-G-D-G and E-A-D-A tunings are included in the long-awaited guide.

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Fiddlers: Tired of being a musical anachronism at reenactments?

All 5 parts of our free online course are available NOW: How to Set Up Your Fiddle 1860s Style (of particular interest to Civil War Reenactors). This course, brought to you by the Adventurous Muse Store, Musicians' Sutlery and Old Mill Musical Instruments is available in 5 parts on YouTube.

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The Adventurous Muse (www.AdventurousMuseStore.com) aims to be the most interesting musical instrument store in the universe! Acoustic, electric and electronic musical instruments, ranging from innovative to beyond your dreams. We started out as www.FiddleandBowStore.com, dealing only in unique bowed string instruments and accessories. The Adventurous Muse venture (www.AdventurousMuse.com) was created to expand our focus beyond violins and fiddles to other types of musical instruments. The Adventurous Muse, owned by Don Rickert Design, is NOT for sissies, but for the adventurous musicians of the world for whom having the most innovative instruments for pursuing their art is a high priority and who possess and are not afraid to spend the necessary money to obtain them. They are committed to restoring the U.S. economy by supporting small businesses (by buying stuff).

Any questions? Our business is for people who can decide for themselves what they need to pursue their art! For the most part, this means that most of our customers are intermediate to advanced players who have developed their own style; however, we welcome beginners and developing players as well--no snobbery or snootiness here...there's enough of that going around already.

Our mission is simple: to provide the best products and service to our customers at the lowest prices possible; however we don't sell cheap junk. We take great pride in our company, our commitment to customer service and in the products we sell. Our online store is designed to provide you with a safe and secure environment to browse our product catalog. We sell unique musical instruments at festivals and via our online store. We don't have a physical storefront; however, many in the Atlanta area stop by our design studio/workshop to try out bows and fiddles--all we ask is that you call first (706) 896-0909.

For more information about us, our opinions, our company, breaking news in the bowed strings world (such as the Pernambuco wood moratorium), reviews of fiddlers' conventions, etc. visit our blog www.AdventurousMuse.com.

We are a division of the Atlanta-based product design firm, Don Rickert Research & Design (www.donrickertdesign.com), which is a DBA of Wiederholt & Rickert Partners, LLC.

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