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What (who) is kazoo - definition
AMERICAN AND THAI MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Kazoos; Kazzo; Kazzoo
kazoo
(kazoos)
A kazoo is a small musical instrument that consists of a pipe with a hole in the top. You play the kazoo by blowing into it while making sounds.
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Kazoo
·add. ·noun A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.
kazoo
[k?'zu:]
¦ noun a simple musical instrument consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, over which is a membrane that vibrates and adds a buzzing sound when the player hums into the pipe.
Origin
C19: appar. imitative of the sound produced.
Wikipedia
Kazoo
The kazoo is an American 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.
Similar hide-covered vibrating and voice-changing instruments have been used in Africa for hundreds of years.
Examples of use of kazoo
1. The deal also included rights to the name, Original American Kazoo Co., so the Eden operation became the Original Kazoo Co.
2. "Music transcends all language and kazoo really provides that to everyone," Smith said.
3. EDEN, N.Y. –– The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co.
4. "If you were to blow into a kazoo, absolutely nothing would happen," Smith said.
5. Jocelyn Akins, a volunteer, echoes the sentiment: "This is party town!" I don‘t pull out a kazoo.