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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.
Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller. [1] It is published and copyrighted by Gigamic. The game is played on a 4×4 board. [2] [3] There are 16 unique pieces to play with, each of which is either: tall or short; red or blue (or a different pair of colors, e.g. light- or dark-stained wood);
Kazoo is a quarterly magazine, published 4 times a year. Each issue is 64 pages long and includes puzzles, stories, comics, games, interviews, and crafts. [8] The magazine is aimed at girls aged 5–12 and has attracted contributors such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Goodall and Ellen DeGeneres.
Mbira (/ ə m ˈ b ɪər ə / əm-BEER-ə) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs (at minimum), the right forefinger (most mbira), and sometimes the left forefinger.
William 'Red' McKenzie (October 14, 1899 – February 7, 1948) [1] was an American jazz vocalist and musician who played a comb as an instrument. He played the comb-and-paper by placing paper, sometimes strips from the Evening World, [2] over the tines and blowing on it, producing a sound like a kazoo.
The regular version of the board and top is made of wood, but the "pocket" is made of plastic. Quoridor Mini / Quoridor Travel: A smaller version. Quoridor: Known, standard sized game board. Quoridor Deluxe: A carved version of wood. The game board is not painted and colored, the wood grain is visible. Size of the board is one size larger than ...
Rootie Kazootie was a boy "keen on sports" who played his "magic kazootie" and wore his signature baseball cap with the oversized bill turned up.Puppeteer Paul Ashley controlled his movements, along with those of the "great Mexican catador", called El Squeako Mouse—a takeoff on the idea of a mouse dueling with a cat rather than a bull.
Barbara Dean Stewart (September 17, 1941 – August 5, 2011) [1] was an American composer and musician, known for her work on the kazoo, both in those fields and as a speaker, researcher, and author. She appeared on The Tonight Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Stewart was the founder of the group Kazoophony, and was called a "kazoo virtuoso ...