A short continuation to the Cool Kazoo.
After recently writing an article about the kazoo, I got one for myself. It took me a week to realize that I was playing it from the “wrong” end, or the end not typically played from. How embarrassing. I guess I wasn’t paying very close attention to how the kazoo was being played. As many wind instruments are narrower at the end they are played into and widen at the other end, I thought this would be the same on the kazoo. However, when played this way, the sound is softer and the tone is thinner than when it is played from the wider end, which I believe may still be the desired sound by some musicians, such as this one:
Here’s a couple more tunes featuring the kazoo in a somewhat serious manner.
The kazoo can be used in a variety of musical genres, such as blues.
In this next piece, the kazoo is played quite impressively. It’s placed in a glass for effects.
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