Music: Re: [oddmusic] This is not a kazoo

Some are massed produced here out of plastic, as Stadium Horns, because of the amount of noise you can make with them at sporting events.

I suppose you might consider it a merliton, but that doesn't make it a kazoo.

That one has a neat sound.
This one has a more mellow recorder like sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu5m6Bb5iGo&NR=1

I have made some before, mostly to take advantage of the incredible loudness. But I did not think it was a kazoo.

We kazoologists have a lot of work to do

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motleyjustmotleynothingbutmotley
http://kazoologist.org/

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Bossert <bossert@suddensound.com>
To: oddmusic <oddmusic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 7:59 pm
Subject: Re: [oddmusic] This is not a kazoo

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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