Minstrel Style Bones
Authentic instruments for re-enactors and living history performers
Perfect for Minstrel Era and Civil War gigs.
Ebony was the wood of choice for Mister Bones on the professional minstrel stage. Rosewood was prominent too. (You could buy a set of four 7" ebony bones for thirty-five cents in the 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Rosewood cost twenty.)
Minstrel-style bones follow the standard 28 degree arc, and measure around 1" wide, by 3/8" thick, by 7" long.
Minstrel-style bones are characterized by their oval ends.
