On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Motleyjust wrote:
> http://parallax.sci.csupomona.edu/demo/index.php/oscillations-a-waves/instruments/ow-d-pk
> Apparently even people who study instruments, don't know what a kazoo is.
> I couldn't find anyway to contact them to correct this.
if this is what i think it is, then i bought one of those in Hawaii recently, clearly mass-produced somewhere else, made from charmingly lopsided paper-mache. it is, as you say, in no way at all a kazoo. Bart Hopkin calls them membrane reeds, and says that they are popular as toys and tourist items in Indonesia -- check pages 66-69 of "Musical Instrument Design" for details and ideas for building simpler variants.
http://windworld.com/bart/invented-instruments/winds-bass-membrane-reed/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=12IKuuvFgW4
many more videos on YouTube.
makes me want to add a merliton to add to the membraniousness.
and yeah, you'd think that a college-level instructor on sound might be able to recognize a kazoo...!
-g
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