kazoo

     

The kazoo is a simple musical instrument (membranophone) that ads a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when one vocalizes into it. The kazoo is a type of mirliton - a device which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane.

Trivia about kazoo

  • Now a children's toy, this musical instrument was popular in jug bands
  • Buzzing, uh, musical instrument?(5)
  • Toy instrument played by Paul McCartney on Ringo Starr's 1974 hit "You're Sixteen"
  • A thin membrane helps this instrument produce its distinctive sound
  • The roof of a factory & museum in Eden, N.Y. has the world's largest metal one of these toy instruments
  • On January 28 all of us can celebrate the day for this humming noisemaker invented in the 1840s

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