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CALGARY- There are some sweet sounds in town this week from an instrument believed to the first-of-its-kind in Calgary.
Mark Kost and Nat Sasaki have worked together to turn an old cigar box into a violin.
Kost’s an old hand at cigar box guitars, having made 210 of them over the past four years–including one played by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
But the violin presented new challenges, so he turned to Sasaki at V.A. Hill Fine Strings, a Calgary shop that repairs and makes string instruments.
Sasaki volunteered his time for the all-important finishing touches on the violin.
They made it for Chris Church, a violinist with Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook’s band.
Mark will give it to Church when the band comes to Calgary next Monday for a show at the Jubilee Auditorium.