Check out the little guy on washtub bass!

Now having gone electric George would trade in his washtub bass for a Danelectro bass guitar.

Lennon convinced a friend, Pete Shotton, to put a string on a tea chest like a washtub bass.

Instead, with guitar in hand, he began performing in a duo with his friend Roosevelt Jackson, who played the washtub bass.

Using these, along with the washtub bass (similar to the cigar box guitar), jugs, washboards, and harmonica, black musicians performed blues during socializations.

The washtub bass was used in jug bands that were popular in some African Americans communities in the early 1900s.

The washtub bass is sometimes used in a jug band, often accompanied by a washboard as a percussion instrument.

One of his washtub basses is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

That 1 Guy plays a variation of the washtub bass called the 'Magic Pipe' and a few other self-built instruments.

Joe Albert played a washtub bass and George played a fiddle, and every Saturday they would start playing.