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Tea Chest Bass: The British first cousin to the washtub bass, and an ancestor of the African earth bow, the tea chest bass is used to provide the low register in skiffle music. The bass is made from a pole, usually a broomstick, placed alongside (or into) a resonator, which is the aforementioned tea chest; a wooden chest with that was once used to deliver tea. In the US, where tea chests have not been common for centuries, an overturned washtub is used as a resonator. To construct the tea chest or washtub bass, one end of a cord is attached to the center of the tea chest (or washtub) while the other end is attached to the broomstick. The free end of the broomstick is braced against the lip of the chest/tub so the string is taut. Plucking or slapping the string produces musical tones. (One might argue that this may have been the inspiration for Larry Graham's ubiquitous slapping technique that is so common in modern funk bass.) Changing pressure against the stick will vary the tension of the cord, which causes changes in pitch. Apart from its role in skiffle music, the American washtub version had found its way into the LA/Orange County folk-rock scene of the '60s via Jimmie Fadden of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fame. A band, incidentally, that in its earliest incarnation counted future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne among its ranks.

T-Zone Tempered Treble	Terminal Adapter (TA)	TA4F
Tablature	Tach pulse	Tailpiece
Tails Out	Take	Talkback
Tamo Ash	Tangential Room Mode	Tap
Tape Delay	Tape Pack	Taper
Tape Saturation	Tape Wound	Tapping
Tap Tempo	Tarnish	TCP
TDIF	TDM	Tea Chest Bass
Technical Ground (a.k.a. technical earth ground)	Ted McCarty	TEF
Telecine	Telescoping Shield	Temperament
Template	Tempo	Tempo Map
Temporary Threshold Shift	Temp Score	Tenor
Terabyte	TeraFLOPS	Terminal
Terminal Strip (a.k.a. barrier strip)	Terminator / Termination	Test Tone
Tetrode	TFT	THD (Total Harmonic Distortion)
THD+N	"The Log"	Theremin
Thermal Noise	Thermal Recalibration	Thermionic Emission
Thimbles	Thin-Skin Nitro	Thinline
Third-Harmonic Distortion	Third Party	Three-Phase
Threshold	Threshold of Feeling	Threshold of Pain
Through-composed	Throughput	Thru Box
Thumbnail	THX	Tick
Timbre	Time-Based Effect	Time Aligned
Time Alignment	Time Base	Time Code
Time Code Address	Time Compression/Expansion	Timeline
Time Machine	Time Out	Time Signature
Tine	Tine Piano	Tinnitus
TNC	Table Of Contents (TOC)	Toccata
Tolerance	Tolex	Tone
Tone Burst	Tone Transfer	Tonewheel
Tonewoods	Tonguing	Tonic
Tonicization	Tonic Sol-Fa	Top Boost
Toroid	Tortoiseshell	TOSLink
Touch Sensitive	Track	Track-at-Once (TAO)
Trackball	Transconductance	Transcription
Transducer	Transfer Rate	Transformer
Transient	Transient Response	Transimpedance Amp
Transistor	Transition band	Transmission Loss
Transondent	Transparent	Transport
Transport Controls	Transpose	Transwave
Treble	Treble Bleed Capacitor	Trembucker
Tremolando	Tremolo	Tremolo Block
Tri-Amp	Triad	Triangle Wave
Trigger	Trigger Sync	Trim
Triode	Triode	Triple-Back
Triple Meter	Triplet	Tritone
Troubleshooting	TRS	True Bypass
True Diversity	True Stereo	Truncate
Truss	Truss Rod	Truss Rod Cover
TS	TT	Tuchel
Tulip Poplar	Tune-O-Matic Bridge	Tuner
Tuner Button	Turnaround	Turnkey
Tusq	Tutorial	TVA
TVF	TVS	Tweed
Tweeter	Twisted Pair	Two's Complement