Books, Posters, Music & Media

  We present "The Marxophone": a historical musical instrument patent poster from our Musical Oddities Series of breathtaking, oddball instruments.  Art.  History.  Inspiration.   The Marxophone is an instrument with a Rock N...

This poster is an artistic throwback to the Vaudeville phenomenon that was made popular in the United States and Canada from the late 1800's until the early 1930's. Vaudeville was a mixture of many different acts, mostly aimed at providing clean and safe...

Tack this piece of art to your wall and you'll never be left guessing on chords for your 3-string cigar box guitar again! This poster features 24 of the most popular chord forms for playing songs on a cigar box guitar (or other handmade instrument)...

Tack this piece of art to your wall and you'll never be left guessing on chords for your 3-string cigar box guitar again! This poster features 24 of the most popular chord forms for playing songs on a cigar box guitar (or other handmade instrument)...

This poster features a vintage photo from the early 1900's, possibly taken in New Orleans. Shane Speal discovered this old photo at an antiques dealer back in the 90's, and recently re-scanned it in to make it available to the cigar box guitar and...

This poster features a reprint of classic cigar box banjo (guitar) plans, which originally ran in the St. Joseph Herald newspaper in Michigan in 1886. These plans, which seem to be based on the classic Uncle Enos banjo plans by Daniel Carter Beard, are a...

This is a historic-themed 12 x 18" poster printed on brown kraft paper. The poster, designed by Shane Speal, features a photo of the famous Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, a group of young New Orleans street performers from the late 1800's and early 1900's...

This is the rocking new blues album "Self Medication" just released on C. B. Gitty Records by One Hand Dan Russel and his band. Dan was born with only one hand, and has had a pretty wild ride in life, including a stint as a semi-pro wrestler, but since...

This is the rocking new blues album "Self Medication" just released on C. B. Gitty Records by One Hand Dan Russel and his band. Dan was born with only one hand, and has had a pretty wild ride in life, including a stint as a semi-pro wrestler, but since...

This is a handy fretting scale length template, with four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for 16-inch, 17-inch (tenor ukulele), 18-inch and 19-inch (baritone ukulele). That's just $1.75 per template! These are some nice...

This is a handy fretting scale length template, with four separate fretboard templates showing fret placement for Soprano Ukulele (13"), Gibson F-style Mandolin (13.875"), Gibson A-style Mandolin (14.125") and Concert Ukulele (17") scale lengths...

John Lowe, or Johnny Lowebow as he is more popularly known, is one of the pioneers of the cigar box guitar and handmade/homemade music movement. He has been at it for decades, building his signature "Lowebow" instruments (that have been owned and...