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A tea chest bass is a home-made musical instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
 that uses a tea chest
Tea chest

A tea chest is a type of wooden case originally produced and used to ship tea to the United Kingdom. The conventional tea chest is a case with riveted metal edges, of approximate size 500x500x750 millimetres....
 (a wooden chest of the type once used in the shipment of tea
Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
) as the resonator for an upright stringed bass
Bass (instrument)

Bass refers to a variety of musical instruments that can be collectively regarded as bass instruments since they produce tones that are in the bass range ....
. The instrument is made from a pole, traditionally a broomstick, placed into or alongside the chest. One or more strings are stretched along the pole and plucked.

In Europe, particularly England and Germany, the instrument is associated with skiffle
Skiffle

Skiffle is a type of folk music with jazz, blues and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as Steel-string guitar and banjo....
 bands.






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A tea chest bass is a home-made musical instrument
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
 that uses a tea chest
Tea chest

A tea chest is a type of wooden case originally produced and used to ship tea to the United Kingdom. The conventional tea chest is a case with riveted metal edges, of approximate size 500x500x750 millimetres....
 (a wooden chest of the type once used in the shipment of tea
Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
) as the resonator for an upright stringed bass
Bass (instrument)

Bass refers to a variety of musical instruments that can be collectively regarded as bass instruments since they produce tones that are in the bass range ....
. The instrument is made from a pole, traditionally a broomstick, placed into or alongside the chest. One or more strings are stretched along the pole and plucked.

In Europe, particularly England and Germany, the instrument is associated with skiffle
Skiffle

Skiffle is a type of folk music with jazz, blues and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as Steel-string guitar and banjo....
 bands. In Australia it was traditionally used to provide deep sounds for "bush band
Bush band

File:Gumtreebushband.jpgA bush band is a group of musicians that play traditional Australian folk music or contemporary folk music played in a traditional Australian style....
s", though most such groups today use electric bass or double bass. It was commonly called a "bush bass".

In the U.S., where tea chests have not been common for centuries, there is a closely related instrument called the washtub bass
Washtub bass

The washtub bass, or "gutbucket," is a stringed instrument used in United States folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings and tuning pegs, traditional washtub basses have a single string whose pitch is adjusted by pushing or pulling on a staff or stick to cha...
, which uses an upturned metal washtub as a resonator.