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kazoo
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- Subclass of
- musical instrument
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- Kazoo.jpg
- Has use
- comedy music
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- Kazoo
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- Kazoos
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The kazoo is a 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 (itself a membranophone), one of a class of instruments that modify the player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics. There is a smaller version of the kazoo, known as a humazoo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kazoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.