He’d say that after a few drinks at the neighborhood BBQ.
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He’d be like...
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...”I really ought to release the dragon I keep locked up in the basement this year”.
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But we all thought it was just hyperbole.
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And
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The kazoo was first produced in the USA around 1852. The kazoo was co-invented by a black man, Alabama Vest, and a German clockmaker, Thaddeus Von Klegg.
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It is thought that the earliest form of kazoo was used by traditional African tribes to manipulate one’s voice, made of a cows’ horn and spider egg casings.
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The name ‘kazoo’ is believed to have been given to the instrument in 1883, and the word is possibly an onomatopoeia (a word that imitates a sound) of the noise that the instrument makes.
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Quality kazoos are commonly made of metal, while other variants typically produced are made of plastic or wood; and not only have they been used as musical instruments, but also as toys.
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Kazoos were first used in a professional music recording in 1921 by the Original Dixieland Jass (or Jazz) Band, in the song ‘Crazy Blues’.