The washing machine is easier on the clothes than a rub board, but I have that too--my mother's.

Supported by a Louisiana Board of Regents' Traditional Enhancement Grant institutional technology match for $44,000, the collection, headed by Nicholls librarian Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, the collection will include folk instruments (for example, a zydeco accordion and a Cajun rub board and triangle) as well as historic instruments (Western Art music), music therapy instruments, instruments for the disabled, and world music instruments.

The follow-up to Grammy Award-winning performer Buckwheat Zydeco's popular 1994 album "Choo Choo Boogaloo", Buckwheat Zydeco's Bayou Boogie is a delightful children's album blending accordion, organ, rub board, and guitar into an enthusiastic, joyful cacophony.

With Noah Peterson on rub board, saxophone and vocals; Janie Smith on sax, flute, percussion and vocals; Fred Garner on bass; and Julian Brogi on drums, the group's style has jelled on the current project.

Older brother Sid Williams manages the band, and cousin Mark Williams is the Cha Chas' rub board player.

The CD features Mark Keels on drums and percussion, George Kola on bass, violinists Ann Lindsay and Rick Hyssop, Carlos Del Junco on harmonica, Denis Kelley on keyboard, Wendy Solomon on cello, Anne Werbitsky on dobro, Sameday Ray and KK Walsh of Loco Zydeco on accordion and rub board and Neil Paraffin and Yashushi on piano.

The rub board can also be traced directly to a common household item, the washboard, which provided the rhythm for such African-American folk genres as jug band music.

This is a band that keeps it in the family with Nathan Williams' brothers, cousin and son on accordion, guitar, rub board and keyboards.