[Dixielandjazz] Skiffle music

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Mostly because the Mound City Blue Blowers Hot Comb & Tin-Can (1924 -  1931) 
were up in my head as a skiffle band, and because Wikipedia was already  
mentioned, I decided to check good ol' Merriam-Websters (2003 edition).
It said this: 
Main Entry:skif£fle
Pronunciation:*ski-f*l
Function:noun  
Etymology:origin unknown
Date:1926
 
 : American jazz or folk music played entirely or in part on  nonstandard 
instruments (as jugs, washboards, or Jew's harps);   also   : a derivative form 
of music formerly popular in Great Britain  featuring vocals with a simple 
instrumental accompaniment.
 
Ginny
 
 
In a message dated 11/21/2008 8:10:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
jcblegen at sbcglobal.net writes:


David Richoux <tubaman at tubatoast.com> WROTE:

The way I  have always understood it (pre-Wikipedia)  is that Skiffle  
is a  mostly UK term that covers the musical area somewhere between  
Folk,  Blues, Jugband, Jazz and early Rock - with an element of Busking   
thrown in. Late 1950s to early 1960s ish.
The guys who grew up a bit to  become The Beatles were in a Skiffle  
Band, as were several other  early '60s British bands. Some home made  
guitars, ukes, banjos,  other misc. instruments were usually  found.

________________


That's how I understood the  term.  I ran into a skiffle group from England 
in 1962 when I was playing  in Germany.  The group was called "The New Lost 
City Ramblers" or  something like that, and they defined themselves as a band 
that played  home-made instruments.  For example, the tuba player, whose name was 
 Hennesey, had fastened a piece of flexible tubing to a Victrola speaker  
horn.  He put a tuba mouthpiece in the tubing and played bass  lines.  He called 
the instrument a spasmaphone and claimed to be listed  in the British 
musician's union as a spasmaphone and Jodpuhr Boot  player.  

John  Blegen
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