The jug as a musical instrument reached its height of popularity in the 1920s, when jug bands, such as Cannon's Jug Stompers were popular. A jug band is a band employing a jug player and other traditional and homemade instruments, such as rhythm guitar, washtub bass, washboard, jug, mandolin, spoons, and kazoo. ...

Most jug players produce sound by buzzing their lips near the opening of the jug. The pitch is controlled by the tension of the player's lips and the flow of air through them. The jug forms a resonant cavity to modify and enrich the sound from the pure "buzz". In this way a single jug can produce many notes. Some players augment this sound with vocalizations.

In addition to the most common ceramic jug, many different containers and materials have been used for musical jugs (glass jugs and bottles, plastic bleach bottles, tin kerosene cans, etc.). The jug is primarily an acoustic instrument, although amplified and "electric jugs" appear from time to time (such as in the 1960s psychadelic band 13th Floor Elevators). The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word Κεραμεικος (the name of a suburb of Athens), and in its strictest sense refers to clay in all its forms. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... This entry pertains to the word psychedelic, its origin and uses. ... Jump to: navigation, search 13th Floor Elevators were a rock music group founded in Austin, Texas in late 1965. ...

Jugs will also produce sound at their main resonant frequency when air is blown across the top opening. This method is not commonly used for jugs, since it is relatively quiet and produces only a single pitch. (It is more typically used for playing glass bottles.) A larger internal space (volume of air) in the jug produces a lower musical pitch whereas jugs with smaller interior spaces produce higher pitches. Thus the single pitch of a jug played in this way may be adjusted by adding or removing a quantity of fluid (such as water or moonshine) from the inside the jug. Loudness is a function of the speed of the air blown across the top. In music, pitch is the perception of the frequency of a note. ... Reusable glass milk bottles A bottle is a small container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. ... Jump to: navigation, search Water (from the Old English word wæter; c. ... Shine Road The name tells the history of this back road Hemingway, South Carolina The literal meaning of moonshine is the light of the moon, but because the activity of distilling whiskey unlawfully was usually done at night with as little light as possible, the word became both a verb...

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How to Prepare and Play a Jug