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Kazoo Science Tubular Gamitadera with membrane Some experiments and analysis of simple mirlitons. http://www.tlapitzalli.com/curinguri/gamitadera/gamite.html What a Kazoo! How to make a cardboard tube kazoo and simple explanation of why it amplifies your voice. http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/text/educators/activities/2000_2001/inclass/what_a_kazoo.html How a Kazoo makes Sounds A science fair project for you to do. http://www.education.com/science-fair/article/how-a-kazoo-makes-sounds/ Kazoo Design Brass Instrument Acoustics How the shape of the tube affects sound. http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/brassacoustics.html#bells Pipes and Harmonics Why do closed conical bores have the same set of resonances as open cylindrical bores of the same length, whereas closed cylindrical bores of the same length have only odd harmonics starting one octave lower? http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/pipes.html Kazoo Construction Building kazoos--Many types of kazoos for you to make The KickStarter Project George "Butch" Collins AKA "The
Old Kazoo Maker" has opened a project at Kickstarter.com to
seek backers
for his project to make a documentary on kazoo making. 100 Kazooz in My Pocket
My first
instructable. How to make a very easy very small kazoo http://www.instructables.com/id/100-Kazooz-in-my-pocket/ Boowakwala.uptoten A slightly different cardboard tube kazoo http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-adventures-orchestra-kazooactivity.html Boyslife How to make a wooden kazoo http://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/projects/7346/how-to-make-a-kazoo/ Carrot Kazoo How to make a kazoo out of a carrot http://www.newworld.co.nz/differentlikeyou/workshop/carrotkazoo Chocolate Kazoo Experiments in making an edible kazoo http://beccajones.blogspot.com/2011/07/kazoo-chronicles.html http://beccajones.blogspot.com/2011/07/kazoo-success.html Clothes Pin Kazoo http://voiceofthemonkey.com/2011/07/27/kazoo-provided-by-combining-clothespin-and-strip-of-paper/ Construccion de Instrumentos Tradicionales Construction of a mirliton on a Spanish site about the construction of traditional instruments. Some of the other wind instruments could be made into mirlitons, also. http://www.es-aqui.com/payno/inst/mirliton.htm Foil Membrane Kazoo http://www.ehow.com/how_12064436_make-kazoo-foil.html First Night Kazoos A slightly different toilet paper roll kazoo. No hole in the side of the tube. Slits are cut in the wax paper. http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10526 Glass Bottle Kazoo http://www.instructables.com/id/A-kazoo-from-a-glass-bottle/ Harmonica and Kazoo Combined How to make a combination Harmonica and Kazoo http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/17/harmonica-and-kazoo-combined/ How to make a wooden kazoo Although many people on Youtube don't know the difference between a kazoo, a straw oboe and several other things, this does show how to make a wooden kazoo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zNRO7xVDI Ideas for Kids' Music Crafts Making a kazoo like instrument out of potatoe chip can lids (I presume they mean Pringles can lids). Since Ehow instructions don't have any pictures I don't entirely understand them. Will need a little experimentation. http://www.ehow.com/info_8181049_ideas-kids-music-crafts.html HAGAMOS UN MIRLITON DE CARRIZO Navachiste 2009 YouTube Video showing making mirlitons from bamboo in South America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO0H3Fz0ocU Jamboree Freedom in Education Make a kazoo from an elder branch or bamboo http://www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk/w%27s%20craft%20corner/kazoo.htm Mirliton A French page of instructions for tube mirliton (French for kazoo) & variations including a double kazoo http://www.servicejeunesse.asso.fr/Ressources/Activites_Manuelles/Instruments_de_musique.htm Google English Translation http://tinyurl.com/3dvpcbx Paper Mirlitons Images on Flickr of two mirlitons to make from paper or thin cardboard. The instructions are in French, but it is not too hard to follow the pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/3901667363/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/3059359705/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/3060194038/ Red, White & Blue Pocket Kazooz Like my previous pocket kazooz instructable, but in colors suitable for 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Flag Day, etc. Make them and hand out to everyone for a holiday concert. http://www.instructables.com/id/Red-White-and-Blue-Pocket-Kazooz/ Simple Flutes: Experiments with Membranes The first is how to make a simple tube mirliton (kazoo). The other two are auxillary mirlitions. http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmiller3/flutes/dizi.html Zaccon Plastic pipe, plastic soda bottle, duct tape and plastic bag http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-make-a-Zaccon/ Kazoo Accessories Instructables--Kazoo Amplifier from a Paper Coffee Cup An accessory for a submarine style kazoo http://www.instructables.com/id/Kazoo-Amplifier-from-a-Paper-Coffee-Cup/?comments=all#C2MNI0TGPAS1ZD9 Return Home |