4 July 2018
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It seems that when I remade the Jazz Up Your Washboard page, I removed the info on thimbles in an attempt at better organization, and then promptly forgot to do something with it. Sorry about that! Better late than never… :P
Some folks don’t seem to have a problem keeping the thimbles on their fingers, while other do. I suppose it has to do with finger shape and size as well as
21 January 2018
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Recently I was asked how to attach a cymbal upright rather than flat/parallel to the board, like on one of the pictures I have on the Pictures of all my washboards page.
The pictures date from a few years ago and my washboard is no longer set up like that since it ended up being too heavy to be comfortable. But if you want to give it a try it’s not that hard I use a the Gibraltar SC-CSA Cymbal Stacker. This device is made to attach to a 8mm cymbal stand top so a metric 8mm threaded rod sticking out of your washboard is what you will need to attach it.
The Cymbal Stacker is made to hold two cymbals..
29 October 2015
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Since I’m still trying to get a decent sounding electric washboard I’ve modified mine 3 times this last year.
The first modifications was replacing the round piezo by a rod piezo designed for string instruments…
26 March 2013
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Do-it yourself bells and more for your musical washboard.
When I first started to play the washboard there wasn’t much information to be found on the web about how to add extra sounds to a washboard. Since I don’t live in an area full of renown washboard players to try and learn from, but am not to shabby at doing stuff myself, I decided to make a page explaining how I had put a cymbal or bell on my board. It (Jazz Up Your Washboard) used to be posted on a different website but for reasons too long to get into I closed my account over there and moved the page here (to this blog).
22 June 2012
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You can find most of this review, as well as other reviews of this product, over at the Clanky Dog Bottle Cap Washboard Gloves page at Bone Dry Music, where you can buy them too if you are so inclined. I admit to not being completely neutral to these gloves since I designed the Clanky Dog Logo and so of course
24 March 2012
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First is a Columbus stainless steel washboard with bells, horns and a woodblock. It has a traditional spiral crimp profile which means that the metal is shaped with a series of horizontal round ribs going across it and each rib as a spiral like pattern on it. I like this board and its profile which has a smooth feeling that is accentuated by the stainless steel. It is very loud and has a plexiglas “woodblock” that I made and stuck on it with magnets.
Next is…
10 May 2011
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This morning I received an unexpected package from my friend, and inlaw, T. who I thank profusely in passing which turned out to be a real surprise. You usually don’t think of washboards when you open an type 1 catalog envelope but a washboard it was and not a toy either!
This 7”×4.5” washboard was used for silk hosiery and in fact has the coolest warning on the back…