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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Musical eccentricities of the Jazz Age


Popular Science takes a look at some oddball musical instruments of 1926.
The "Siamese banjo" looks a bit like the Thai jakhe — any ethnomusicologists out there recognize it?


Here's an ad for the "weird" one-stringed Jazzitha which promises to have everyone stepping in ten minutes.

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