rubboard

Their Zydeco rubboard (one of the few instruments invented entirely in the United States) was such a hit that one young musician joined them to play it throughout their four-hour performance aboard a parade float the next day.

We drew our water from a well in the back yard with a bucket and Mom washed oh a rubboard and used a washpot.

Zydeco's steely pulse is derived from the signature instrument in its rhythm section, the corrugated metal scrapper known as a rubboard or scrubboardor, in Creole, froittoir.

Both recordings reveal what happens when young men and women (Tammy Ledet on rubboard) who have grown up in a musical tradition and have spent a lot of time listening to the latest sounds get their turn in front of the microphone -- or I should say, their turn on the bandstand, for the music on these two CDs is first and foremost meant for dancing.