Oh, You're Wanting some Yank Pride Which Does Not Need Flags?

Well ... let's go ...

So, you want something good about America which isn't flag-waving crapola ... every one of the devices for my life in music - Yanks.

Fender Stratocaster - if it's not specifically marked Made in America, no-one will buy it

Gibson Les Paul - one of the most famous instruments in the world

Godin (any of them) - Godin is in Vermont

Harmonica - any type of whistling device goes back to when we still banged on logs but America made it a blues harp

Boss - unknown where they are actually constructed but America designed them and they're so bad-ass you can crash a bike and still they survive.

Psychedelia in Music - San Francisco

Hip-hop - like it or no, America made it

Jazz - a bit questionable since it has huge debt to Africa

Fusion - America

And on and on and on.  Don't need no flags because my musical devices, almost all of which came from Yank designs

Synthesizers - largely constructed overseas and much design there as well but Walter nee Wendy Carlos made Arp famous

Rock - Beethoven

(Ed:  he's no Yank)

Yah, but it would be cool if he were.  Imagine him with some Marshall stacks.  The man could cause earthquakes all by himself.

And there's another - Jim Marshall - one of the most significant contributors to rock sound evah

Well ... I'm guessin' you're guessing the point ... now that I've flogged the living hell out of it.

We don't like waving flags but don't take that to mean we ain't appreciatin'.  If not for all this kit, I would be under a tree playing a banjo.  There's one problem with that ... I've never played a banjo.

Fark, there's another one ...

Banjo - there are many, many types of multi-string instruments so the actual source of the evolution is tough to determine but bluegrass music ... well ...