and his wife Tara took over ownership of the store in February 2021. In November 2021, Mello and the store were featured on the WVTM Chronicle special, "Made in 'Bama," hosted by Lisa Crane. The Cigar Box Guitar Museum, a free display dedicated to cigar box guitars, is located in Speal’s Tavern, a small blues club in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania. It is curated by cigar box guitarist Shane Speal and contains over 60 antique and modern cigar box guitars. Tuning Many different tunings can be used for cigar box guitars. Common tunings are: Open tuning three strings: for example A – e – a or G – d – g four strings: for example A – e – a – c#' or G – d – g – b Classical tuning of a six-string guitar (E – A – d – g – b – e’) three strings: for example A – d – g four strings: for example d – g – b – e’ Magic jazz tuning: A – e – g Hawaiian tuning: A – e – f# Four string banjo tuning: D – G – b – d Notable performers Bo Diddley played a cigar box–shaped guitar. Luther Dickinson, the guitarist of the North Mississippi Allstars, uses an electric cigar box guitar called the Lowebow. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top performs with a cigar box guitar. Frank Turner plays a four-string cigar box guitar. Richard Johnston, the subject of the 2005 Max Shores documentary Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour, performs with a Lowebow. Johnston helped design the instrument with its builder, John Lowe. Bonny B. plays with a cigar box with only two strings (octave chord). Tom Waits plays cigar box banjo on his album Real Gone. Jon Hembrey, lead guitarist of 2014 Juno nominees the Strumbellas, plays a three-string cigar box guitar. Seasick Steve plays several personalized and obscure instruments, including a cigar box guitar. Shane Speal, billed as "The King of the Cigar Box Guitar," performs exclusively with cigar box guitars in solo shows and with his group, Shane Speal's Snake Oil Band. He performs with self-built cigar box guitars and also with instruments by Daddy Mojo, Smokehouse Guitars, Tomi-O Hartwell, Johnny Lowebow, Kurt Schoen and Mike Orr. Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd plays a cigar box guitar. Harry Manx, a Hindustani slide master, plays a Lowebow cigar box guitar. Chris Ballew, lead singer