[Dixielandjazz] Jag playing

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Gee!  And I always heard that all WASHBOARD PLAYERS were well over the 
EDGE :))

Cheers,

Tom  Who plays "Jag too:  Model XKE "  Wiggins


Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jag playing

    . .and "Nice try" to you too Mr Gunter, top jagboard player West of 
the Rockies. Betja didn't know that "jags" are the little spaces 
between the ridges of your chosen instrument, the washboard, and in 
early days the best of players were lauded with large crowds shouting 
,"Go, Jagger! Go, Jagger!" when certain accomplished washboard players 
performed highly skilled licks, making special use of the "jag" spaces 
which extended to the very edge of the ridges (hence also the phrase 
"jagged edge", stemming from the way early washboards were pushed to 
their limits, with players "going to the edge"). The phrase has evolved 
to the point where now certain rock crowds shout out the same phrases 
to applaud the sounds coming from the lips of a certain rock singer 
whose words, as they cross his giant lips, sound just like the gratings 
made across the ridges and jags of the washboard. How does this rock 
star do it? No one apparently knows, but crowds still shout, "Go, 
Jagger! Go, Jagger! Rock out, dude!" all the while paying homage to 
washboard players, and not even realizing it. We must certainly lament 
the loss of the early historical facts - - -once again evidence that 
the schools are not doing their job . .. . . 
 
  
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