A Jug as a musical instrument reached the height of it's popularity in the 1920s. The jug is a glass or stonewear jug played with the mouth with an embouchure like a brass instrument, buzzing the lips. The jug does not actually touch the players mouth, but acts as a resonating chamber.
Although the jug is used primarily as an acoustic instrument, they have been known to be played amplified from time to time. Snoop Dog is reportedly a modern day jug player. Who knew???
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I did have to laugh at this instrument. The local Senior Center here has a little band called "the Kitchen Band" and they play household instruments and of course one is the jug. It's fun to watch them play
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When I was very young (perhaps 4 or 5), my grandparents took me up into the mountains of Virginia to visit some cousins who were so far out on the family tree, their branch back to us was hardly more than a thin whip of bark. After dinner, these distant relatives took up all manner of seemingly discarded household items: a comb, a large stew pot, an old laundry tub, and -- yep -- a crockery molasses jug. The music they played was unlike anything you've ever heard. I think there may have been Blue Ridge Magic in that music, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that it couldn't be captured and recorded anyway.
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That sounds like a truly authentic evening. What a fun experience that would be!
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