What is Skiffle you may ask? Early incarnations of the Beatles were influenced by the skiffle craze. Skiffle is a type of Folk music with a Jazz and Blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo. Skiffle and jug band music are closely related. Skiffle was particularly popular in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.