It's a lot cheaper to let your body produce the big throaty sound and then send that to an ordinary kazoo. Yes, there's the Martin Dreadnought Model D284736163850674737ZT kazoo you can buy, but they cost a lot of money, and it's hell to get capos for them.

Meanwhile, in the vicinity of your belly-button, inside your body, dwells a Ziggy-like creature that exists only to send your voice out.

1. Imagine you have taken in a mouthful of very hot food and are too polite to spit it out. What do you do? You will instinctively open the back of your mouth (raise the soft palate) to let air in. Suddenly your voice will be big.

2. Relax your throat and jaw, so they don't get in Ziggy's way.

3. Don't slouch.

4. Smile with your eyes

5. Join a regular choral group

6. Just let Ziggy do it.

Throaty? There are two ways to do throaty. One is to be unhealthy -- to smoke, to have chronic allergies, to have a low-grade sinus infection. The other way is to let a sound engineer push the THR button. I believe that's how the professionals do it.