"I find the
Kazoo is unlike any wind blowing instruments you have to hum or make a noise for the
kazoo to be effective."
At one jazz band competition at Newcastle's Brough Park in October 1972, for example, more than 8,000 people turned up to take in the sight and sounds of marching bands, military drum patterns and
kazoos. One or two of our images recall that event.
A strange sound is set to be heard on the Great Wall of China - Cat Harvey playing 500 Miles on a
kazoo.
"The Saturday street parade is always a highlight and this year we're encouraging festival goers to join in with their own hand-made
kazoos.
I resent it in much the same waythanifIweretogoandsee an orchestra play and the per- son sat next to me started join- ing in on the
kazoo. If I were sat next Yehudi Menuin (assum- ing he were still alive!) and he started joining in on his violin then fair enough, but if life teaches us one thing it's that there are a lot more idiots with
kazoos than there are geniuses with violins.
Little Sister, with their
kazoos, animal impressions and quirky songs got feet tapping and hands clapping.
To commemorate the Oktoberfest taking place in Cincinnati that weekend, attendees (Patricia Dyer Tuley and Paul Stewart, pictured far right) played the "Chicken Dance" on
kazoos, while staff members demonstrated the famous dance.
And, ask about their other regular stage instruments including
kazoos, recorders, bass, drums and cow-bells.
The sugar producers' lobby will demand yet more bells and
kazoos to keep the contraption going.
One idea already being circulated would gather residents to christen the new city song on
kazoos.
To a fly buzzing in a motel room, Biele says, "I'm battling the air / for what seems like hours, your weird music / a band of
kazoos never getting it right, / the church-goer singing loudest and always off key."
If it's accordions today, why not 0 Sanctissima accompanied by
kazoos and bicycle horns tomorrow?
What more appropriate on a beautiful English spring morning in the peaceful surroundings of Elgar's Birthplace and its splendid new exhibition centre than an impromptu recital performed by 27 Finnish schoolchildren - on
kazoos?
The Hornets last away game of the season is at Middlesbrough on May 6 and, rather than a wake, the 3,000-plus supporters travelling to the north-east are promising a huge party with hundreds of "We're out of your league" T-shirts already sold, 1,000 red-and-black balloons, 300 plastic
kazoos (whatever they are) and arranged face painting.
THE squeals of
kazoos will bring the valley alive to celebrate a music festival.
