Consider the bassoon. Across its six sections that come apart, it has about 19 holes (depending on the model) and more than ...

"Anyone can play the kazoo," said Melbourne-based composer Ciaran Frame. Back in June, Frame was in the thick of organising 10,000 kazoos as part of Melbourne's new winter arts festival Rising, which ...

A house under lockdown can get lonely. So when Kavya Ramachandran dusted the covers off her ukulele months after she bought it, repaired its strings nibbled away by rats in her absence, and sat down ...

Stuart Crout is more than a musician. He's a maker. Based on the fact that Crout built a combination ukulele/kazoo/baby piano for his busking pursuits in Edinburgh, he's also proud to be a geek. Watch ...

"Without a sense of tune, playing the instrument can be awkward. I see a lot of people using it but only a handful can do justice. My wife, Runa, can pull off complicated compositions in Tamil like ...

Forget everything you ever knew about the kazoo – there, that was easy. Now imagine you’re hearing a first-class blues sax player, let’s say Sonny Rollins. Wouldn’t it be great if, with a modest ...

The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co. And boy, do its owners mean original. The same belt and pulley machines that stamped and shaped the world’s first metal kazoos circa 1900 ...