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  2. Conservation and restoration of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    If a space is too warm, wooden instruments may retain moisture from the air and warp, which can eventually lead to cracks in the structure. Even small fissures in the wood can greatly impact the sound that the instrument is able to produce. Recommendations include: "If you play wooden-bore wind instruments, warm them up and play them in gradually."

  3. 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.

  4. Red McKenzie - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts - HuffPost

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  6. Barbara Stewart (composer) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Yunnori - Wikipedia

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    This brings the number of stations to twenty-nine in total. The board is also known to sometimes be drawn onto the floor. Instead of dice, yut-sticks are used. (These are similar to those used in the Egyptian board game Senet.) There are two kinds of yut-stick: jang-jak yut (장작 윷) and bam yut (밤 윷). Jang-jak yut are made of wood ...

  8. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Beginning 12th century, may have had "large wooden key installed" to make playing easier and to help play bigger bells. [20] Depicted in small sets (4 to 5, 8 to 9). [21] Latin, western tradition from church tintinabuli, little bell: Circa 1066-1083 A.D., Normandy.

  9. Skiffle - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, performer Billy Bragg's book Roots, Radicals and Rockers, a history of the skiffle movement, was published. [17] Bragg has compared the development of skiffle in Britain in the 1950s to punk rock in the 1970s, noting that skiffle was a revolt by young people against the culture of their parents, and allowed them to create their own ...