About Me

A visual artist - painting, sculpture and installation art - as well as an aspiring washboard player, I live in the Swiss Jura mountains.

My lens currently are about Jazzing up your washboard, Washboard Playing, Musical Washboard Videos.

I have also been making designs for washboard players in my cafepress shop: Rattlebrained Designs, and you can hear me play on Messin' Round's MySpace page. Not to mention my Rattlebrained Blog

Jazz up your Washboard

Do-it yourself bells and whistles for your musical washboard. This Squidoo lens is hopefully becoming the website I would have liked to have found when I started playing the washboard a few years ago. I really love this very special instrument. For...

Scratch Your Ax Washboard Basics

Watching, and of course playing with, other washboard players is really one of the better ways to learn how to play this fine instrument. When I started playing I didn't have a clue and unfortunately, didn't think of searching the web right away. And...

Musical Washboard Video Showcase

There is a tradition of "being the clown" still used by washboard players which really isn't as bad as it sounds. Clowns, as everyone knows, are often highly skilled in many ways and to be a clown with a washboard, you need to be an extreme...