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How Do You Tune A Cigar Box Guitar?

 

However you want :)

Seriously, you can tune it like a traditional guitar but with three or four strings or you can tune it to an open chord similar to a banjo (but without the banjo 5th string).

 

Here are some common tunings for a 4 string cigar box guitar. The top string (first) is the third of the chord.

 

 

Here are the same tunings for a 3 string cigar box guitar. There is no third so technically these aren't major chords.