In the nineteenth century in the USA,musical instrument were expensive,Homemade instruments were cheaper and the most fashionable was the cigar box guitar. It is both simple and easy to make you just need. An empty cigar box,apiece of wood and some strings. Even in the twentieth century,some famous electric guitarists,like Jimi Hendrix,first used a cigar box guitar when they began playing Recently,some American musicians have started to use them again in both jazz and country music.