In their heyday, washboards were instruments of laundry day drudgery. Today they're more likely to be instruments of good clean fun, as Conor Knighton now tells us: For serious players of the ...

LOGAN — The last washboard manufacturer in the United States has proven as tenacious as ring-around-the-collar. The Columbus Washboard Co. probably shouldn’t have made it into the 21st century. The ...

Derived from West African hamboning and popularized in the U.S. through 20th-century jug bands, the washboard has been used as a makeshift percussion instrument for more than 100 years. By adding ...

Since Covid-19 broke out in the United States this spring, one unlikely item has seen a spike in sales: washboards. For the uninitiated, washboards are used to clean laundry, and typically have a ...

To be sure, it constitutes a conversation piece. The Rube Goldberg-esque curiosity within the musical-instruments collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) consists ...

Did you know the home of the longest remaining washboard factory is right here in Ohio?There's a festival that takes place every year in Ohio since 2000 to celebrate washboards and the music that ...

For many of us, washing clothes by hand is no longer a necessity. Yet the simple ridged device used before the advent of washing machines is still in production today and continues to be used all over ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- This small cafe in the East Village is filled with sunlight, the smell of coffee, and the soothing tunes of a jazz trio. But this trio is different. There are a saxophone and a ...

In the years since he started bringing washboard players together for musical gatherings, Mike Johnson has seen countless observers struggle to make sense of these down-home jams. One likened the ...