Price reduced! This price is only for this week. It will return to the original price next week. A small washboard purchased as a souvenir from New Orleans. This rare item is designed with a tie in mind. The main body only. You play it by hanging it from the collar of your shirt like a tie. A "washboard" is a rhythm instrument originating in the late 1910s when washboards were used as percussion in the jazz music of the southern United States.