Things & Music

[James Curry]

So here is one to start of with. What is this a wash board or a musical instrument?il_1588xN.2571413451_5idw.jpg

Can anyone add more items that are used to make a makeshift musical instrument.

[Ivan Cloherty]

So here is one to start of with. What is this a wash board or a musical instrument?il_1588xN.2571413451_5idw.jpg

Can anyone add more items that are used to make a makeshift musical instrument.

Well I used to play double base in a skiffle group - old tea chest, long handle (from deck broom) and proper double base strings, we had violin, washboard (with thimbles), spoons and double base, our first public appearance was in Albany W.A. at the London Inn, if I remember rightly, it was a one horse town in those days, they'd listen to anything! and the beer was free for us and any crew member. Prior to our first gig, the crew used to shout, 'give it a rest' after the first gig it was 'are you playing tonight' more to do with free beer than love of music I suspect!

[Mo Docherty]

So here is one to start of with. What is this a wash board or a musical instrument?il_1588xN.2571413451_5idw.jpg

Can anyone add more items that are used to make a makeshift musical instrument.

CARROT FLUTE,eat it when finished

[James Curry]

Comb and paper Kazoo!!Kazoo.jpg

[happy daze john in oz]

Using a saw bent being held by the knee with some kind of bow being drawn across it.
My old uncle used to play one, many years ago.

[James Curry]

Surely there are those of us while at sea had someone on board who played the Spoons. I certainly remember when we had family get togethers my uncle Billy played the BONES & the Spoons.

John found this video of playing the Saw.

https://youtu.be/7E_U1xyK7Gw

[Tony Taylor]

Surely there are those of us while at sea had someone on board who played the Spoons. I certainly remember when we had family get togethers my uncle Billy played the BONES & the Spoons.

John found this video of playing the Saw.

https://youtu.be/7E_U1xyK7Gw

same same here, my old man made me a wooden set of "bones"

[happy daze john in oz]

Mate, just hope you do not get a case of borers, you may well fall in heap if you do.

[James Curry]

John if you get wood worm in bones you could end up playing a bum note

[Colin McClelland]

It was lonney Donnagan that made the Skiffle group famous , that started people making all the home made musical instruments, I went to see him at the EMPIRE in NEWCASTLE in 1967.
The bones here in Tyneside are known as Nacker bones.