Book Description
Hum, don’t blow! Revised and expanded with 50% new material, THE COMPLETE HOW TO KAZOO promises to turn a whole new generation on to the joys of the kazoo. There’s never been so much kazoo between two covers. Beginning with the all-important lesson of humming, it covers: kazoo history (it is arguably the first musical instrument invented in the United States—in Macon, Georgia, in the 1840s); fingering and embouchure (i.e., the best way to hold it in your mouth); instrument maintenance; how to recruit players for a kazoo orchestra; the power of “doo” (kazooing for inner wellness); kazooing for families, including the kazoo’s natural gift for entertaining babies; and even kazoo marching band formation. But perhaps best of all are the songs you can kazoo— amply demonstrated— including folk, rock, jazz, and even hip-hop. “The seminal work,” is how
The New York Times described HOW TO KAZOO when it was originally published in 1983. And the public responded. Nearly 300,000 copies were sold, and the author, Barbara Stewart—leader of the Kazoophony, hailed by the
Wall Street Journal as “the world’s premier kazoo group”—kazooed her way through the media, appearing seemingly everywhere. Isn’t it time to get America humming again?
About the Author
Barbara Stewart began kazooing at the age of three. She has performed on
The Tonight Show and with George Carlin, Frank Zappa, and PDQ Bach. Her triumph as a kazooist prompted the Smithsonian to request her concert kazoo, which now resides in the permanent music collection. She lives in Fairport, New York.
