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Show Me Your Washboard!

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This is a series of 20 short videos from YouTube user tambourine21 that more or less show 19 washboards from the Jug Band Fest 2007 in, I’m guessing, Tokyo Japan (You can move from one to another with the right – left scrolling arrows).
“I’m guessing” because the info is in Japanese, a language I unfortunately do not read or speak, “more or less” because not all the videos really show the player’s washboard and 19 because one of them is a spoon player.

Hardly anyone actually plays their board but as you can see watching these videos, they were mostly taken by surprise with the demand that they “show their washboard”. That said, I really enjoyed watching this series! It’s a cultural trip in many ways: the washboards are really cool, some jazzed up with many bells, horns and whistles, lots of great ideas! And the videos where taken in a variety of locations, a true “behind the Japanese jug band fest” washboard documentary.

Many thanks to tambourine21 for posting these! It would be great if someone made a similar documentation of the washboards found at one of the US washboard festival… hint, hint… ;-)

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