Washboard         

             A Washboard May Be A Tool Designed For Hand Laundry Wear. With Mechanized Improvement Of Wear Changing Into A Lot Of Common By The Top Of The Twentieth Century, The Washboard Has Become Higher Celebrated For Its Originally Subsidiary Use As A Device.

             The Traditional Washboard Is Typically Made With An Oblong Wood Shut In That Area Unit Mounted A Series Of Ridges Or Corrugations For The Covering To Be Rubbed Upon. For Nineteenth Century Washboards, The Ridges Were Typically Of Wood; By The Twentieth Century, Ridges Of Metal Were A Lot Of Common. A "Fluted" Metal Washboard Was Proprietary within The U. S. In 1833. Metal Washboards Were Factory-Made Within The U. S. From The Center Of The Nineteenth century. Within The Late Twentieth Century And Early Twenty First Century, Ridges Of Galvanized Steel Area Unit Most Typical, However Some Fashionable Boards Area Unit Manufactured From Glass. Washboards With Brass Ridges Area Unit Still Created, And A Few UN Agency Use Washboards As Musical Instruments Like The Sound Of The Some what dearer Brass Boards. One Among The Few Musical Instruments Fictitious Entirely Within The U. S. Is That The C And W Frottoir (Zydeco Rubboard), A Distillation Of The Washboard Into Essential Components (Percussive Surface With Shoulder Straps) Designed By Clifton Chenier And Designed By Willie Landry In 1946.