[Dixielandjazz] Skiffle music

[Stanley A. Klein]

My understanding is as follows:

If a band includes a washboard, it is a washboard band, unless it includes
a jug, which makes it a jug band.  If it includes multiple other homemade
instruments (e.g., washtub bass, musical saw, etc.) it is a skiffle band.

The Sunshine Skiffle Band had two washboards, a jug (doubled from
saxophone), a musical saw, a washtub bass, a water whistle (doubled), a
slide whistle (doubled), a player who had a bandolier of harmonicas,
kazoos (several doubled), and a few others I can't remember.  A founder
played a rhumba box.


Stan Klein


On Sat, November 22, 2008 3:00 pm, j.warrenIII at comcast.net wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:57:47 +0000
> From: j.warrenIII at comcast.net
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Skiffle music
> To: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>

> Are there other meanings?  What instruments does a Skiffle band have in
> addition
> to washboard and string bass?
>
> RGDS, JACK
>