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  2. Burley Design - Wikipedia

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    Burley Design (previously Burley Design Cooperative) LLC is a company in Eugene, Oregon, United States that has produced outdoor family products since 1978. [1] Its blue and yellow children's bicycle trailers were among the first on sale, in the early 1980s. In the past, Burley also made bicycles, tandem bicycles, recumbent bicycles, and rain gear.

  3. Hurdy-gurdy - Wikipedia

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    Ancient kings playing an organistrum at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East (e.g., the rebab instrument) before the eleventh century A.D. [2] The first recorded reference to fiddles in Europe was in the 9th century by the ...

  4. Kazoo - Wikipedia

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    A metal kazoo Other examples of kazoos. The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of mirliton (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics.

  5. Eunuch flute - Wikipedia

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    The eunuch flute, unlike a kazoo, is held horizontally (basically a Horizontal Kazoo) against the mouth while the user vocalizes into the aperture. The eunuch flute consists of a wooden tube widening out slightly to form a bell.

  6. The Kazoo Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Kazoo Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the kazoo, located in Beaufort, South Carolina. The museum houses one of the largest collections of kazoos in the world. [ 1 ] Originally established in 2007 in Seattle , Washington , [ 2 ] The Kazoo Museum opened in its current location in Beaufort on October 6, 2010. [ 3 ]

  7. Thaddeus von Clegg - Wikipedia

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    Thaddeus von Clegg was a German-American clockmaker who constructed the first kazoo in the 1840s in Georgia. [1]The kazoo, also called the Clegghorn, is based on the African mirliton, and was a popular African-American folk instrument during the 19th century.

  8. Slide whistle - Wikipedia

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    Slide whistle Diagram of a slide whistle. Sections: 1: mouthpiece, 2: fipple, 3: resonant cavity, 4: slide, 5: pull rod, 6: pipe. A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, [1] piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.

  9. Banjo & Kazooie - Wikipedia

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    Banjo & Kazooie are the protagonists of the video game series Banjo-Kazooie, created by the British developer Rare.They were introduced in the original Banjo-Kazooie (1998).