OK, stop snickering. A related question would be what is an electric jug? Then how is it played. I did a google search on “electric jug.” I got appliance related sites. I added “music.” I got web sites for varous jug bands. I then realized that this would be more work than anticipated. Thus, I am coming here. I have not yet done a SDMB search, but I regularly lurk around, and I have never seen the question.
I assume an acoustic jug would be blown in for sound. Filling it to a certain level would adjust to the desired tone. Exactly how that would be plugged in and amplified is a mystery to me.
Well, here’s how you play a jug. You apparently don’t put water into it (at least, he doesn’t), it’s just a neutral bass tone. http://www.schnipp.com/jug.htm
And I found a guy who amplifies his washtub bass. I would assume that amplification for a jug would be the same–use a boom to get a mike close to the jug.
Shades of Roky Erikson. I know nothing about playing one, but I saw Roky perform a couple of times, and he blew into the top, sometimes cupping his hand near the opening. He wiggled, too, IIRC.
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I have no idea if there is such a thing, but it wouldn’t be what Duck Duck Goose describes, which is simply close-miking an acoustical instrument. It’s the same thing as saying that putting a microphone close to an acoustic guitar turns it into an electric guitar.
An electric instrument has a pre-amp built into it.