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Piedmont Blues - North Carolina Style
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Blues Techniques : Instruments : Rhythm : Other Styles

Instruments

Picture: close-up shot of a hand plucking the strings on a guitarInstruments for blues run the gamut from piano, saxophone, trumpet to guitar and harmonica. Piedmont blues musicians traditionally chose guitar as their main instrument, but other instruments often accompanied the guitar. Below are the instruments and their players that sometimes were the exception in the Piedmont blues style.

Harmonica

Sonny Terry
Robert House, former chancellor of UNC-CH

Autoharp

Thomas Burt

John D. Holeman


Fiddle

Thomas Burt

   
   
   
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