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Pages in category "Blues instruments" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Archtop guitar; B.
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
"Blues fiddle" [1] is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists played violas, the term is synonymous with violin, and blues players referred to their instruments as "fiddle" and "violin".
The fiddle is a traditional stringed instrument that is often used in Americana music. [36] Its versatile sound can create both slow, mournful melodies and fast, lively rhythms. Fiddles are often played using a technique called "sawing," which involves rapidly moving the bow back and forth across the strings to create a driving rhythm. [37]
T-Bone Walker at American Folk Blues Festival, Hamburg, 1972 (from List of blues musicians) Image 57 Eric Clapton, 2006 (from List of blues musicians ) Image 58 An 1890s photo of the tourist steamer Okahumke'e on the Ocklawaha River , with black guitarists on board (from Origins of the blues )
A French horn, one of the important instruments in blues music. New Orleans is generally credited as the birthplace of jazz music, but has attracted less attention as a center of the blues. The 12-bar blues were well known in the city before most of the rest of the country. Buddy Bolden's
Although Delta blues certainly existed in some form or another at the turn of the twentieth century, it was first recorded in the late 1920s, when record companies realized the potential African-American market for "race records". The major labels produced the earliest recordings, consisting mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument.
Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s.