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What's the Difference Between A Three String Cigar Box Guitar and A Four String?
A three string cigar box guitar has the root, fith and root of the chord. In other words, when tuned open to a chord, all yo need is these three notes. There is no third in this tuning although you can tune the first string to the third of a major chord if you like, but it makes it harder to play many songs tuned this way, that's whymost people tune it as follows:
root
fifth
root (octave)
A four string cigar box guitar has the above notes but adds the third on the first string:
root
fifth
root (octave)
third
This allows many different variations of playing songs simply by adding the third note on the first string.
many people find that playing a 3 string cigar box guitar is more difficult than a 4, 5 or 6 string guitar because the strings are farther apart. It only takes a few minutes for a guitar player to acclimate to this.