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In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

  
  KAZOO MUSEUM
#9 / KAZOO COLLECTIONS DONATED TO THE MUSEUM
#11 / KAZOO RECORDS / CD's / CASSETTES
CLICK ON PIX BELOW TO VIEW NATIONAL KAZOO DAY CELEBRATIONS OF
www.captainkazoo.com /museum.html   (56 words)

  
  #1 Childrens Educational Toys Online Store, Kazoo & Company, Hosting LEGO 'Imagination Day'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kazoo and Company offers one of the country's largest selections of educational games and toys for kids, including imaginative and nonviolent toys for babies to 12 year olds.
Kazoo and Company's trained, friendly staff is always ready to assist customers in finding appropriate educational toys and games for children of any age or interest.
Kazoo and Company extends its tradition of exemplary customer service to its KazooToys.com online toy store, where children’s learning toy enthusiasts can order educational toys for toddlers and preschoolers, wooden toys, farm toys, unique educational baby toys, ride on toys, science kits, math educational toys, stuffed animals, toy trains, and more educational toys for kids.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/7/prweb413477.htm   (1068 words)

  
  How kazoo is made - Background, History, Raw materials, Design, The manufacturing process of kazoo, Quality control
A kazoo is a type of instrument known as a mirliton, which uses a resonating membrane to amplify sound.
A kazoo is a wind instrument unlike conventional brass and woodwind instruments.
When a kazoo is passed through the machine, the ink is transferred from the plates to the body of the kazoo.
www.madehow.com /Volume-4/Kazoo.html   (1840 words)

  
 Kazoo - Appearance How to play the kazoo The ancient...
The kazoo, a simple musical instrument (membranophone) that adds tonal qualities when the player hums into it, was invented in the 19th century in Macon, Georgia by an African American named Alabama Vest, who based it on an African device called the mirliton which was used to disguise the priest's voice in ceremonies.
The whole idea behind the instrument is, that a kazoo player by singing or speaking through the instrument induces an air current which makes the membrane vibrate and thus creates a summing, "nasal" sound.
The kazoo is categorised among the type of instruments known as the "mirlitons".
www.infoweb.co.nz /kazoo   (1172 words)

  
 KAZOO- A REAL AND FUNKY MUSIC INSTRUMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kazoo is one of the simplest musical instruments, and is liked and loved by people of all age group.
Kazoos are available in different colors, and are made of wood, plastic and also with metal.
Kazoo is not very costly; it is available in different rates depending upon the shape, and design patterns.
www.articleboom.com /Entertainment/article/KAZOO.html   (341 words)

  
 How To Kazoo
Kazoo is the instrument of the common people.
The uni-tone or arbitrary pitch kazooist is every bit as welcome in the kazoo ensemble as the musical maestro, making up in enthusiasm what he/she may lack in musicianship.
Kazooing knows no boundaries and voices can be raised worldwide in no languages whatsoever.
www.howtokazoo.com /campaign.html   (764 words)

  
 Senior Spin - Articles- The Kazoo
The kazoo, however, is more than just a children's toy: it is a uniquely American instrument, formed from the blend of American ingenuity and the traditions of other lands.
A kazoo is a small tube-shaped instrument usually made from plastic or metal that produces sound by combining the human voice when a person hums into it with vibrations from a membrane.
The kazoo belongs to a family of musical instrument called "mirlitons," which are characterized by their sound-altering vibrating membranes.
www.seniorspin.com /articles/AKazoo.html   (342 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Kazoo Organ
An instrument with the majesty of a kazoo and the portability of an organ.
This is because a kazoo operates by sympathetic vibrations of a wax paper resonator with your voice, which gives it its characteristic quality.
Because of the way a kazoo produces its sound, it might not be necessary for the pipes' lengths to correspond exactly to their intended fundamental harmonic, which is usually necessary in organ pipes since the sound is produced by the vibrations in the air column.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Kazoo_20Organ   (508 words)

  
 The Kazoo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To play the kazoo, all you need to do is put your mouth on the end of it and hum your favorite tune.
The kazoo was designed in the 1840's and became very popular in the 1920's and 1930's.
Other bands that play the kazoo in their tunes are Blind Melon, The Grateful Dead and probably one of your parent's favorites, The Beach Boys.
www.kidzworld.com /article/622-instrument-the-kazoo   (312 words)

  
 Rick Hubbard's Fun Kazoo Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Kazoo is a manufactured version of an Afro-American folk instrument, U.S. in origin.
It is based on the African mirliton, a mysterious instrument used in sacred ceremonies as voice disguisers.
Rick's largest kazoo band was comprised of more than 30,000 members.
www.kazoobie.com /kazoofax.htm   (195 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/kazooguelph
Kazoo is a bi-weekly music happening based out of Guelph, Ontario.
Kazoo shows are happening every second Thursday at the E-Bar throughout the Winter.
kazoo's have been all ages, but somethnig tells me the albion will not be.
www.myspace.com /kazooguelph   (864 words)

  
 networked_performance: Kazoo
The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre presents Kazoo - it's a live art thing; Performance/ Live Art: Play, Action, Intervention in Public and Private Spheres :: Launch Event: 2nd of December 2006, doors open at 6pm, performances begin at 7pm; Performances in Public Places: 3rd of December 2006.
The launch of Kazoo, at Premises Gallery on Saturday December 2nd is the first ever international annual event of its kind in Johannesburg.
Kazoo is proud to have the support of the American Embassy, Goethe-Institut, Wits School of Arts, Absolute Vodka and Red Bull.
www.turbulence.org /blog/archives/003366.html   (341 words)

  
 Kazoo History
While major kazoo research has been minimal for the past few decades, those of us willing to explore the record will find the kazoo to have a fascinating history.
In fact, the kazoo, called the chasoux royale all through the Dark Ages, was essentially a French device well into the 14th Century and was played at banquet or in boudoir by nobles and commoners alike.
Indeed, it was a trend that would lead not only to the rash of all-electric kazoo bands of the '60s and '70s but also to the development of the non-digital, non-analog, voice-synthesized kazoos still in wide use today.
www.thekazooguy.com /history.htm   (515 words)

  
 Kazoo - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
This conflict was cut short by the invention of the bagpipe whereupon both parties immediately dropped what they were doing and started the Hundred Years' War to rid the world of the bagpipe.
Al Addin (no relation to Aladdin) was the first to successfully harness this power, but his life was brought to an unfortunate end when he suddenly felt the icy grip of death upon him.
A metal kazoo was used by Gary Burghoff to stab Al Sharpton 150 times during the filming of an episode of The Little Bastards.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Kazoo   (264 words)

  
 THE SCIENCE OF KAZOO
The dilemma of the kazoo- an appeal: The last song is symptomatic for the development and role of the kazoo in modern music today.
The kazoo has turned into a toy for children and a funny litlle input in songs without meaning in a world without sense.
The kazoo was originally ment to be a sophisticated disguise of the voice.
www.angelfire.com /apes2/advancedabsurdity/Kazoo.html   (1308 words)

  
 in the Town of Eden
The machines that make kazoos are the same die presses that were installed in 1907 when the building housed a sheet metal workshop.
THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN KAZOO: The kazoo was invented by an American named Alabama Vest and made to his specifications by a German clockmaster by the name of Thaddeus Von Clegg in Macon, Georgia back in the 1840's.
KAZOO PATENTED IN 1923: McIntyre and Richardson began producing metal kazoos in 1914.
www.edenny.org /kazoo.html   (530 words)

  
 Let's Hear it For the Kazoo
The Kazoo has its roots in Africa, where it was made from a cow's horn with a thin, vibrating membrane from the egg shells of spiders covering the hole.
It took another 50- plus years for the kazoo to leave the south and reach a national audience, but by 1923, the familiar metal kazoo we all know and have probably played, was finally patented by Michael McIntyre and Harry Richardson, who started The Original American Kazoo Company, which is still in business.
The big breakthrough for the kazoo was being featured by the jazz combo, the Mound City Blue Blowers from St. Louis, who made the first recording of the kazoo in 1923.
www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2005/0128.shtml   (346 words)

  
 Broome County Celtic Kazoos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The manufactured kazoo was invented by Alabama Vest, made to his specifications by Thaddeus Von Clegg in Georgia in the mid 1840's.
A kazoo is a toy wind instrument, usually made of plastic, metal or wood.
Use only plastic kazoos during freezing weather (since we march so early the snow has known to blow on some parade days) metal Kazoos are known to stick to the lips.
www.tier.net /users/bcceltickazoos/info.html   (670 words)

  
 Weekend: GO FREETIME! - Cincinnati's ultimate guide to entertainment!
the kazoo was born in 1919, when inventor and sheet-metal craftsman Michael J. McIntyre filed a patent application for a ‘‘musical toy or instrument.’’ He was soon turning out kazoos in his Eden, N.Y., shop.
But it was the ’60s folk revival that brought kazoos back into vogue, adopted by such revivalist groups as the Rooftop Singers (who scored one of the biggest hits of 1963 with Mr.
Kazoos have turned up on records by some top rock acts.
www.cincinnati.com /freetime/weekend/kazoo2.html   (521 words)

  
 Georgia STATE FAIR (Macon) - Birthplace of the kazoo
The kazoo is based on the African mirliton, and was a popular African-American folk instrument during the 1800's.
It wasn't until the early 1900's that the kazoo went nationwide, when a traveling salesman named Emil Sorg and a New York tool and die maker named Michael McIntyre developed a way to mass-produce metal kazoos.
KAZOO FACTS: The Mirliton (KAZOO) appeared in great numbers and in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials throughout Africa as far back as tribal history can trace.
www.georgiastatefair.org /kazoo.htm   (523 words)

  
 kazoo band
Children are not allowed in the Kazoo Band, and the group never rehearses (except for a one-and-a-half-minute practice just before the parade begins, according to Anderson).
And yes, kazoos are required to be a member of the Kazoo Band.
Many people have taken their turns tooting kazoos in the Kazoo Band, including past Seal Beach mayors and other community leaders.
www.gazettes.com /kazooband11302006.html   (572 words)

  
 All dj kazoo, music, disc jockey, biography!
In 95/96 dj kazoo returned to NYC and began to work with Master D at Nemesis record distribution...
dj kazoo was a resident at the tues.night "Redbud" party at Den of Thieves and Beau and Christian Bruna's "Camouflage".
In 99, dj kazoo left his friends to become the DandB buyer at Syntax music - a new distributor set up by Master D! Flash forward to 2001 - dj kazoo still finds himself dropping a creative blend of Techstep, old skool ragga, futuristic rollers and dark funk...
www.famousdjs.com /biographies/dj_kazoo.htm   (484 words)

  
 Music thing: The Electric Kazoo (plus a MIDI kazoo, too!)
Zach writes from San Francisco with news of the Kazooka Electric Kazoo, which attaches an electromagnetic pickup to a Kazoo, so it can be played through a guitar amp.
Sample quote: "The electric kazoo frees musicians from all the limitations of "normal" instruments." I asked Kazoo King Rick Hubbard what he made of it.
At Kazoobie Kazoos we are working on a new pick-up for our kazoos.
musicthing.blogspot.com /2005/01/electric-kazoo-plus-midi-kazoo-too.html   (673 words)

  
 Flickr: Photos from Kazoobie Kazoo
This is a cool kazoo made for the Weezer Hash Pipe Tour a couple of years ago.
Several years ago Rick presented a kazoo to Al Roker on the sidewalk set of the Today Show.
He was riding with Keith King in a show at the Down East Festival...
www.flickr.com /photos/kazoobie   (142 words)

  
 Kazoo's Song
Kazoo was born Kazuko Mitsui in Okinawa before WWII.
Kazoo despised the Japanese; she blamed them for the war.
In a letter she urged her to call Hisako, a memba, who lived near Kazoo.
www.gakkaionline.net /Experiences/HeardKazoo.html   (196 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Kazoo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Arlington, TX Kazoo is a three piece reggae/rock band from the heart of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
Music has always played an integral role in bringing about social and political change, and Kazoo incorporates very meaningful lyrics with infectious grooves to help get the point across.
Yeah, I said infectious, but don't worry, the only thing Kazoo is spreading is awareness.
www.purevolume.com /kazoo   (107 words)

  
 Kazoo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The instrument uses a thin membrane to amplify the voice, giving it a buzzing quality.
The kazoo has been produced in all shapes and sizes, but is most familiar today as a short, open-ended tube of plastic or metal with a wax paper membrane stretched across an open hole on the top of the tube.
It is classified as a mirliton in the membranophone instrument category.
www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textk/Kazoo.html   (83 words)

  
 The Kazoo - Its "physics", history, and importance for modern music
The membrane is the key point of the kazoo.
The kazoo is categorised among the type of instruments known as the
The kazoo was originally ment to be a sophisticated disguise of the voice.
www.kazoos.com /historye.htm   (1072 words)

  
 "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records Kazoo Tips   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In subfreezing temperatures, use ONLY plastic model kazoos, since a metal kazoo could become permanently affixed to lips and/or tongue.
To avoid cramping, chafing, and blistering, induce a North Carolina farmer to reveal the contents of the ointment they have used for generations to treat cows with chapped udders.
Directly before an important performance (what kazoo player performance in unimportant?) the professional and courteous kazooist (and what kazooist is not courteous?) ABSTAINS from such substances as beer, chili, garlic or other dyspeptic foods UNLESS hiccoughing is a desired effect in the music.
www.dqydj.com /kazoo.htm   (225 words)

  
 Kazoos, Kazoos, Kazoos, Kazoos
Manufacturers of Made In The USA Best Quality Plastic Kazoos
and Web Store for ALL kinds of kazoos.
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www.kazoos.com   (41 words)

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