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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.
[1] [2] The eunuch flute's sound resembles that of a kazoo. 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.
The first product that brought them attention was the Fuzzy Farm Puzzle, a wooden puzzle with texture. [9] An extensive line of wooden puzzles followed. [9] [1] In the late 1990s, the company expanded into wooden toys, arts & crafts, pretend play, plush toys, and more. [9] [1] [3]
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.
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 ...
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.
Many of the early episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus feature a sensible-looking announcer (played by John Cleese) dressed in a black suit and sitting behind a wooden desk, which in turn is in some ridiculous location such as behind the bars of a zoo cage or in mid-air being held aloft by small attached propellers. The announcer would turn ...
English has borrowed the term from tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table'), [4] [5] a generic term referring to board games.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as skáktafl (), kvatrutafl and halatafl (), as these became known. [2]