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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.
Cup-and-ball (or ball in a cup) or ring and pin is a traditional children's toy. It is generally a wooden handle to which a small ball is attached by a string and that has one or two cups, or a spike , upon which the player tries to catch the ball.
An incredibly awkward and weird, yet mesmerizing 1989 video took the Internet by storm in January featuring a young boy playing the kazoo and playing with his friends in the woods.
"Deer horn and ball" was the form that the kendama took on when it arrived in Japan for the first time, literally a deer horn attached to a ball. Later on, some people replaced the deer horn with a piece of bamboo due to deer horn costing too many resources, making the bamboo and ball .
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.
Two crumhorns, 5 & 6 from left. The crumhorn is a capped reed instrument. Its construction is similar to that of the chanter of a bagpipe.A double reed is mounted inside a long windcap.
The sentence said the kazoo was the only instrument developed in the US (but so was the sousaphone, or if you prefer, a hundred and one synthesisers - the Buchla, the Moog, the original RCA), and that it was the only melodic instrument that anyone can play, which isn't true because you have to be able to sing to play it, which not everyone is ...
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 ...