The Complete How to Kazoo

by Barbara Stewart

From The Complete How to Kazoo: "Legend has it the kazoo was invented in Macon, Georgia, in the 1840s by Alabama Vest, an American black, and made to his specifications by Thaddeus Von Clegg, a German-American Clockmaker" (3).

"Whatever its exact origins, the submarine-shape kazoo was an actual invention, an acoustic improvement on more primitive varieties of mirlitons, with a turret on top (not seen in African or other mirlitons), which acted as a collector for exterior vibrations."

From the back cover: "Irreverent, but practical too, here is everything (and we mean everything) there is to know about the art of the kazoo. Barbara Stewart, whose triumph as a kazooist prompted the Smithsonian to request her concert kazoo, is the founder of kazoophony." 

The Complete How to Kazoo (www.howtokazoo.com)

ISBN-10: 089480605X

ISBN-13: 978-0894806056

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Available at Hermit Hill Books in Poultney and at the Symposium.