washboard (American scraped idiophone)

~ Percussion instrument

Description

Typical metal ribbed tool used for washing, still in it's wooden frame, often has is additional noisemakers attached, such as cowbell or woodblock. It is played with thimbles as plectrum.

Relationships

from:United States of America
used in:jug band
zydeco
type of:scraped idiophone
derivations:frottoir (Zydeco vest scraper)
picture:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/washboard/washboard.png [info]
Wikidata:Q21607265 [info]
other databases:https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/gakki/gakki_jiten_washboard.html [info]
https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/musical_instrument/musical-washboard.html [info]