Washtub bass
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The washtub bass, or gutbucket, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings a
Tea chest bass
Australian bush band with tea chest bass player.
Don Bexley and Redd Foxx in episode of Sanford and Son
Jug band
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A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a lineup of players of other instruments, both conventional and homemade. The homemade instruments are most often ordinary objects adapted to or modifie
Washtub bass
…washtub basses have a single string whose pitch is adjusted by pushing or pulling on a staff or stick to change the tension. The washtub bass was used in jug bands that were popular in some African-American communities in the early 1900s. In the 1950s, British skiffle bands used a variant called a tea chest bass…
Cannon's Jug Stompers
The jug band 5-Cent Coffee performing at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival