The washboard and frottoir are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used in jazz, zydeco, skiffle, jug ba
Washboard player accompanying piano
A busker in Madison, Wisconsin, playing a washboard
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Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instrument
Washboard (musical instrument)
…as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used in jazz, zydeco, skiffle, jug band, and old-time music, the washboard remains in its wooden frame and is played primarily by tapping, but also by scraping with thimbles. Often…
Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, c. 1928
The Alcove Skiffle Group performing in Chislehurst Caves, 1957