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syncopated sound to American popular music (now called the "Bo Diddley beat") and beat it all out on a cigar box-shaped guitar he called the "Twang Machine." Diddley built the instrument himself ...

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Bo Diddley is an American original. He introduced a new, syncopated sound to American popular music (now called the "Bo Diddley beat") and beat it all out on a cigar box-shaped guitar he called ...