[Dixielandjazz] washboard position

[Mike Durham]

Bill Gunter writes that the Columbus Washboard Company makes the best 
washboards. While acknowledging Bill's encyclopedic knowledge of the 
subject, I must respectfully beg to differ. The best washboards are 
indubitably manufactured by the Imperial Washboard and Carriage-Whip 
Manufactory (incorporating the Gothic Blimp Works) of 
Stratford-under-Scratchit, Worcestershire. Made of high-tensile molybdenum 
steel and standard issue to British Army bands since 1807, they are 
virtually indestructible and have been proven in action on the North-West 
Frontier, in the Crimean War and during the late Indian Mutiny (where an 
improvised barricade made up of the standard issue Number 14 board proved 
impermeable even to medium-bore cannon-shot at the Siege of Murghapore in 
1856). They are used to best effect with "Dorcas" Brand thimbles. I rest my 
case!

Mike "Time for a spot of tiffin, eh what?" Durham.

>From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>To: mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com, dingle at baldwin-net.com, 
>dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] washboard position
>Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:35:32 +0000
>
>Listmates,
>
>Mike Durham signs his name (regarding the merits of washboards):
>
>>Mike (I have no shares in the Maid-Rite Corporation, honest!) Durham
>
>Maid-Rite is not the company you would want to hold shares in anyway.  
>You're best bet would be with the Columbus Washboard Company (presently 
>located in Logan, Ohio - about 45 miles south east of Columbus).
>
>They have a website ---> http://www.columbuswashboard.com/ <---  which will 
>give you more information on the subject than you really needed to know.
>
>They have an annual washboard festival in Logan, OH (in which our band "The 
>Boondockers" will be performing) in June  . . . I'll post more information 
>on that as time goes by.
>
>Respectfully submitted,
>
>Bill "Thimbles" Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com
>

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