Kazoo crazy game instructions Continue The American musical instrument A metal kazoo with a coin of 1 euro for comparison: 23.25 mm (0.92 inches) Examples of kazoos The kazoo is an American musical instrument that adds a buzzing timbre quality to the player's voice when the player voices, buzzes or blows into it. It is a type of myrliton (which in itself is a membranophone), one of the class instruments that changes the voice of its player by vibrating the membrane of the skin goldbeater or material with similar characteristics. Such vibrating and voice-changing instruments have been used in Africa for hundreds of years, often for ceremonial purposes. Playing kazu player buzzes, not punches, in the big and flattened side of the instrument. The oscillating air pressure of the drone causes the membrane to vibrate. As a result, the sound changes in height and volume with the humming of the player. Players can make different sounds by ingesting specific syllables such as doo, 'too', which, rrrrr or brrrr in kazoo. Some people refer to the casu membrane as a cane, believing that it performs the same action in kazoo as it would be a wooden spirit tool, however the cane is made of cane (or synthetic equivalent), while the membrane (most often made of wax paper) is not. The story originated with the Kaminsky International Kazoo quartet, a group of satirical kazoo players who may truly question the veracity of the story, like the very name alabama West. In 1879, Simon Seller received a patent for a toy pipe that worked on the same principle as the kazu: blowing tube A, while humming a kind of head sound, musical vibration is given to paper covering with a c above the diaphragm b, and sound produced pleasant to the ear. The seller's toy pipe was basically a hollow sheet-metal tube, with a rectangular diaphragm cut along the length of the tube, with paper covering the diaphragm, and a funnel at the end like a bell pipe. The first documented appearance of the kazo was that was created by the American inventor Warren Herbert Frost, who named his new musical instrument kazoo in his patent #270 543, issued on January 9, 1883. The patent states: This instrument or toy, to which I propose to give the name kazu ... - Frost's kazu does not have a streamlined underwater form of modern kazus, but it was similar to the fact that the diaphragm was round and towered over the length of the tube. The modern kazo, also the first of metal, was patented by George D. Smith of Buffalo, New York, on May 27, 1902. In The original American company Kazoo in Eden, New York, began producing kazoo for the masses in a two-bed store and factory, using several dozen presses to cut, bend and compress metal sheets. These machines have been used for decades. By 1994, the company produced 1.5 million kazus per year and was the only manufacturer of metal casuis in North America. The factory, almost in its original configuration, is now called the Kazu Plant and Museum. It still works and it is open to the public for tours. In 2010, the Kazu Museum opened in Beaufort, North Carolina, with exhibits on the history of the Kazu. Professional use of Kazoo Problems playing this file? See the media report. Kazoo plays professionally in pitcher bands and comedy music, and fans all over the world. It is one of the number of acoustic instruments developed in the United States, and one of the simplest melodic instruments for reproduction, requiring only the ability to voice in harmony. In North East England and south Wales, the incident plays an important role in the juvenile jazz band. During the carnival, players use kazoos at the Cadiz Carnival in Spain and in corsos on the murgas in Uruguay. National Youth Administration: The rhythm band plays in Sandwich, Illinois, 1936 In the original Dixieland Jass Band 1921 recording Crazy Blues, something that a casual listener might err on the trombone solo actually kazoo solo drummer Tony Sbarbaro. Red McKenzie played Casa in the short film Blue Blowers Mound City. In the early 1920s, The Mound City Blue Blowers had a number of hit Kazoo records with Dick Slein on metal kazoo and Red McKenzie on a crest and napkin (although McKenzie also played metal kazoo). Vocaphone, a kind of kazoo with a trombone-like tone, is occasionally featured in Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Trombonist vocalist Jack Fulton played her on Whiteman's Vilia (1931) and Frankie Trambauer's Medley of Isham Jones Dance Hits (1932). Vocal group Mills Brothers originally started in vaudeville as a kazoo quartet, playing four-frequency harmony on a kazoo with one brother accompanying them on guitar. Kazu is rarely found in European classical music. He appears in David Bedford with 100 Kazoos, where, instead of professionals playing the instrument, kazoos are handed out to the audience who accompany the professional instrumental ensemble. Leonard Bernstein included a segment for the kazoo ensemble in the first intro (Rondo) of his Mass. Kazu was used in the 1990 Koch International and 2007 Naxos Records recordings of American classical composer Charles Ives Yale-Princeton Football Game, where the kazoo choir represents the applause of the football crowd. The brief passages have a kazoo chorus sliding up and down the scale as applause rises and falls. In Frank's score 1961 Broadway Comedy How to Succeed in Business Without Trying, A Few Kazoos Produce the Effect of Electric Razors Used in Executive Restroom During Dance Reprises Ballads I Believe in You. In 1961, Del Shannon's So Long Baby, released on Big Top Records, featured a mishap on an instrumental break. In addition to the single, he appeared on the British American release of his album Hats Off To Del Shannon. Joanie Sommers' 1962 hit Johnny Get Angry featured the kazoo ensemble in his instrumental bridge, as was Dion's hit the same year, Little Diane and a cover of Ringo Starr's 1973 song You're Sixteen. Jesse Fuller's 1962 recording of his song San Francisco Bay Blues includes a kazoo solo, as does a recording of Eric Clapton's 1992 song on the television show and the MTV album Unplugged. On the song Alligator on the Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun album, three members of the band play kazoo together. Many of Paolo Conte's performances include excerpts of Kazu. Short kazoo performances appear on many modern recordings, usually for comic effect. For example, in his first album, Freak Out!, Frank Sappa used kazoo to add a comic feel to some of the songs, including one of his most famous, Hungry Freaks, Daddy. In the song Crosstown Traffic from the Electric Ladyland album, Jimi Hendrix used a comb and a paper instrument to accompany the guitar and emphasize the blowing sound of the speaker. The song Lovely Rita from the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uses combs and paper instruments. Playing Kazoo, Kazu parodied the sound of a military brass band in Pink Floyd's song Corporal Clegg. In McGuinness Flint When I'm Dead and Gone, Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle play Kazu in Harmony during the instrumental break. The New Seekers' live track (Ever Since You Told Me That You Loved Me) I'm A Nut includes solo kazoo singer Eva Graham. British singer-songwriter Ray Dorset, leader of pop blues band Mungo Jerry, performed kazoo on many of his band's recordings, as did former member Paul King. One of the most famous casers of recent times is Barbara Stewart (1941-2011). Stewart, a classically trained singer, wrote a book about the kazoo, formed a quartet of Kazoophony, performed a kazu at Carnegie Hall and late at night with Conan O'Brien. The Steampunk band Steam Powered Giraffe has audience members playing kazoos at some of their concerts. They also sell Kazookaphones, a standard kazoo with an extra horn and a phonograph. Kazu is regularly used on the I'm Sorry I Haven't Clue radio show. Yoshi's New Island video game, released in 2014, synthesized kazoos on several tracks of its soundtrack. American glam metal band Steel Panther released the Christmas track The Stocking Song in December 2014, which includes a kazoo hook from Deck Rooms. Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala released the 2009 single Sundown Syndrome, which includes the rhythmic part of kazoo. Swedish rock band Ghost performed live acoustic performances of their song Ghuleh/zombie queen, which includes kazoo instead of keyboards recorded version. Ukrainian Polish band Los Colorados have released a cover album Rammstein for the song Du Hast, which has a kazoo. In the video game Plants vs. The zombies 2 are synthesized kazoo, played at the levels of the Dark Ages. South Korean singer Kim Jong-un was known for his use of kazu in solo concerts, most notably the concert series The Story of Chonghong, which lasted from 2015 until his death in 2017. Records March 14, 2011, viewers on BBC Radio 3's Red Nose Show at the Royal Albert Hall, along with the star-studded Kazoo Group, set a new Guinness World Record for the largest Kazoo ensemble. 3910 casuists played Wagner Trip Valkyrie and Dambusters in March. This surpassed the previous record of 3,861 players set in Sydney, Australia in 2009. The current record of 5190 was set later that night with the second attempt. On August 9, 2010, the San Francisco Giants hosted Jerry Garcia's tribute party, in which an ensemble of approximately 9,000 casuisists played Take Me Out to the Ball Game.