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How to pronounce kazoo in English?

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Type of wind, wind instrument

Examples of kazoo

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Pop-A-Shot is to basketball what the kazoo is to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
From the suntimes.com
Kazoo began operations in Baker Street, and later moved to Kendal Place, London.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Favourite instruments include the keyboard, guitar, theremin, kazoo and bongos.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I'd also suggest you bring a bell, kazoo, drum or other noisemaker to the session.
From the forbes.com
Sometimes I would join in, but I felt like a kazoo player sitting in with Coltrane.
From the nytimes.com
Garchik was braying through his plunger, which he'd jury-rigged with a kazoo.
From the nytimes.com
One of them is also an accomplished kazoo player and the other one has ADHD.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
A hearse is to lead the ghastly parade followed by a zombie kazoo band.
From the freep.com
Be sure to visit the Original Kazoo Company, the only metal kazoo factory in existence.
From the buffalonews.com
More examples
  • A toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
  • The kazoo is a wind instrument which adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when one vocalizes into it. The kazoo is a type of mirliton which is a membranophone a device which modifies the sound of a person's voice by way of a vibrating membrane.
  • A simple musical instrument consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it; to play the kazoo
  • The player hums into this short wooden, metal or plastic tube to create buzzing sounds as air moves over a membrane.
  • A type of mirliton into which the player hums a tube and a membrane fitted across an aperture in the instrument vibrates in sympathy, added a buzz to the humming sound of the player
  • 'a would-be musical instrument'