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A participant in the ASF building program at Hammond Middle School marks off the spaces between frets on his home-made cigar box guitar.

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Birth of the Blues

ASF, Hammond students team up to build guitars.

Twelve Hammond Middle School students stood before their teachers, classmates, School Board members and administrators Feb. 1 as they gave a musical performance using their own hand-crafted cigar box guitars. As a result of an after-school program sponsored by Alexandria City Public Schools and the Alexandria Court Services Unit, several middle school youth proudly displayed the culmination of four months of work building their instruments.

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