kazoo

“The analogy is like an instrument — a little, small kazoo, you can’t make it very loud,” Scharer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Ms Millington's challenges have so far also included barefoot running, blacksmithing, beekeeping and busking on the streets of York in a turkey outfit playing Christmas songs on a kazoo.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

One instrument sounded like a wild kazoo, shrill to the point of radical harshness — something like true freedom.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

She was playing the kazoo and poking around.

From Salon ● May 21, 2023

Oh, where abides the fond kazoo, The barrel-organ fair, And where is heard the tra-la-loo Of fish horns on the air?

From Hoosier Lyrics by Eugene Field

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings out the score’s color and propulsion, and the excellent Met Opera chorus creates the seething world of the dead, occasionally playing kazoos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Students in other classrooms in this hallway learned about the amplification of sound — using kazoos, much to the dismay of neighboring teachers — while others created bubble wands or wind-powered cars.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022

Witnessing the past four years of Wall’s career has been like trying to slow dance to a syncopated mess of kazoos and congas.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

Every Saturday, visitors from as far away as Germany drive out to the graffiti-scarred cylinder for a turn inside with their guitars, flutes, harps, kazoos or just their own voices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2017

But the ragged little "poh white" used to sit beside her piano by the hour and try to get in an alto with one of those kazoos that boys hum through.

From Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald