Where do all the kazoos go???

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 99 - 04:46 PM

Rick..my wooden kazoo, upon examining it, is Padauk, Maple and Walnut...very common combination these days..Padauk is used for LOTS of wooden instruments...like those xylophone things, and an ocarina.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 06 Apr 99 - 03:49 AM

Bert, I'm glad you didn't have a "Kazoo up the Wazoo" band. --seed

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Mike Billo
Date: 06 Apr 99 - 10:57 AM

Before this thread dies a natural death (some would say that's long overdue), check out the amazing kazoo collection of Captain Kazoo at http://www.captainkazoo.com/

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: AlistairUK
Date: 06 Apr 99 - 12:15 PM

I think we should get more into catspaws desire to blow up a possums bum. I mean this could get really facinating, better than a tiple band if you ask me.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 09:37 AM

I know where mine came from (a Christmas cracker). So far it goes most places with me where I think I might be allowed to join in. ("I took my kazoo to a party but nobody asked me to play" as the old song might have said!).So far it's come back- no-one has knocked it down my throat! Don't knock it, for those of us who can't play anything else it is a godsend- and has the added benefit in my case of preventing me from singing or (even worse) whistling. A steel comb and the old fashioned shiny lavatory paper used to be OK, but that new soft stuff.... I too love Jesse Fuller, Red McKenzie, Tony Hall of the Spinners etc.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 11:48 AM

Tony DAVIS I should have said! I was listening to a tape I'd compiled of Cliff Hall's Caribbean songs in the Spinner's reperoire over the wekend which accounted for the gaffe!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: reggie miles
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 03:14 PM

Karen, thanks for the info about the exotic kazoo maker I'm thinkin' one of those could be the perfect addition to my Eldorado Rhythm Board. Reggie Miles

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Jen
Date: 07 Apr 99 - 09:35 PM

I wrote a story about a kazoo-playing girl and the Host of Faerie... it will be published in Eternity Online Here? hopefully! in June if anyone's interested!

(Now let's see if my link showed up)

Jen

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Barbara
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 09:12 PM

Say, Catspaw, I just spent the afternoon making a possum, and the only problem I got now is that no matter how hard I blow up its butt, I can't QUITE make it whistle. Its eyes bug out, but it don't sing.
Yet.
And yes, I carved a slot in it, and punched some holes, and I can tell the potential is there, but the sucker just won't howl. Yet. It just makes this pitiful little moaning noise, like blowing through your thumbs.
I've made flutes, but never a whistle, and this possum and I are going through this till I get it. The bad thing about clay is, it's flexible, but the good thing is, when it don't work, I just pack some more clay in, and try again.
I sure hope you have fun with this.
And, assuming he survives this, you need to tell me where to send him (is your personal mail not working?)
By the way, the way he's made it looks a little more like youre blowing his balls than his butt, hope that isn't a big problem.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 10:16 PM

Barbara, I just love you to death....Such dedication and determination in the face...well, not the face exactly, but,uh...well you get my point. I have had a bit of a problem with my mail, but I'll get back to you ASAP. Many Thanks Again,

catspaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Barbara
Date: 08 Apr 99 - 10:34 PM

By George, I've got it! This whistle pig whistles!
Now, does anyone know how to tune one of these? Move sound holes which direction, does changing size make a difference?
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: reggie miles
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 03:10 AM

Barbara, I know some friends who work in clay that create ocarinas. They may be able to give you some tips. They are Sandi and Richard Schmidt you can email them at [e-mail]. Hope it helps. They make excellent ocarinas.

Reggie Miles

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Bert
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:30 AM

How much are you selling these things for Barbara? You did know, of course, that we would never let you get away with making just ONE, didn't you?

Bert.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: AlistairUK
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:38 AM

Hey if y'all get together and call yourselves "Paw and Possum Butt Blowers". I think you may have a hit on your hands.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:43 AM

I was about to say Barbara could go into the business, but I think poor old Shambles would have heart failure.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 02:11 PM

AAAAGGGGHHHHH !!!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Jen
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 03:40 PM

Barbara, I've tried to make them also, but out of polymer clay. I found a website(I'm not sure the exact address, but I searched dogpile for 'ocarinas' http://www.dogpile.com (cute search engine.)
But I've always wanted to make them out of polymer clay, but it hasn't worked yet. I found a page where someone has made them out of polymer clay, so now I know it's possible!

Jen, back to cleaning. Break is over! ;-)

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Barbara
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:50 PM

Reggie's reference people were friendly and helpful and I haven't checked out the websites they gave me yet. Getting a clean edge and the right slant on the fipple seems to be the biggest part of the trick.
Ooo 'paw you're gonna love this. And I hear ya, Bert.
Only catch is, the person costuming Wizard of Oz just got scheduled for some emergency surgery, and she asked me yesterday to take over (cast 52, show opens second week May, and about 2/3 of the costumes are done).
So, if you all can just keep your fantasies live for a while (Alistair will have no trouble with this, I can tell) and not get your shorts in a wad, I'll have more time to make more of these in about 5 weeks.
Hang on to your dreams.
Blessings,
Barbara
And catspaw, I won't know for sure if you get shipped this one until next week when it gets fired.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Apr 99 - 11:45 PM

And Bless you Barb!!!Many Thanks.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: LEJ
Date: 10 Apr 99 - 01:44 AM

Hey Barbara...how bout setting up a Genuine Catspaw Possum Kazoo stand at MUDSTOCK 99? Bet you could move a few there...LEJ

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Night Owl
Date: 10 Apr 99 - 01:50 AM

Fantasy # 5,632.....catspaw receives his new "possum whistle" in time to send a tune for the Mudcat CD!!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Apr 99 - 02:03 AM

Ah, requests all ready......I'm deeply moved......................................... .............................................. .............................................. .............................................. .............sorry, I guess it was just gas.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 07:28 PM

I found one down the back of a chair today. A kazoo that is.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 07:41 PM

Well this is interesting. I'm glad you found your kazoo Sham......Any potato chips or popcorn? We also find a lot of that.

This was really an interesting thread as it wove its way about wasn't it? Its also the birthplace of Cleigh O'Possum and odlly enough I had (or rather CLEIGH had) just mentioned this very thread in another one called, "BS:Don't miss it."

Thanks Shambles for the refresh.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 08:40 PM

Not too sure that it was my kazoo. It was so old, it was probably Jesse Fuller's? There were a lot of plectrums there too.

Yes this thread was a bit of fun. I remenbered the kazoos but I had forgotten that it was Cleigh's birthplace. But I refreshed it anyway. Don't know what that says?

The fun is good but it's not really worth losing good contributors over is it?. It's just getting the balance right, I guess?

Can we declare Peace?

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: richlmo
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:23 PM

There was a band from the Chapel Hill area called Hot Shandy who did some fine 3-part Kazooing about 20 years ago. I think I still have an album somewhere. I keep a kazoo in my guitar case, but I haven't played it in a LONG time. Used to show off playing " Yakkity Sax" with it. It can be fun

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:37 PM

We're probably both weary of the hatchets in our heads anyway aren't we?

Peace.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 09:21 AM

The kazoos are now located in the Republic of Kazuistan, a breakaway FSU (former Soviet Union) country in the Caucasus Mountains

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 09:55 AM

Paul James, a Toronto legend has a kazoo attached to the end of a harmonica rack that he uses in his solo acoustic show. It sure is a fun instrument, especially when Paul plays it.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 10:19 AM

Ah.

This is why I keep coming back to the mudcat. I think I've laughed harder reading this thread than I've laughed in a month. (Visiting captain kazoo helped too.)

Did catspaw ever get his ocarina?

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 10:57 AM

So rabbit.........Please familiarize yourself with CLEIGH O'POSSUM -- Mudcat Icon and then go check out the thread called "BS-Don't Miss It".....I think.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 01:27 PM

Hands up any banjo player who's been asked to play duelling banjos by some guitar player who wants to get the girl! Well after many such requests Geoff the Duck decided drastic measures were needed and now if asked if he plays said tune says yes and does so solo on banjo and kazoo. A treat not to be missed!!!!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 02:56 PM

What if he is asked for duelling kazoos?

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 03:26 PM

Has anyone considered the problems of keeping a kazoo in your mouth whilst playing another instrument. Obviously the one man bands with the "Mouth Truss" do not have a problem because they do not actually need to hold it. I find that the grip you need to exert to prevent it flying across the room acn make my jaw ache. Plastic kazoos tend to disintegrate with bite marks at the end. My metal kazoo is definitely slightly compressed. I also wrap plastic electrical insulating tape around the mouthpiece as it otherwise tended to slip out from between the teeth. Any better suggestions? Quack!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:10 PM

The link didn't work for me! What's the long way round?

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:21 PM

Never mind. I found it.

That's amazing. And beautiful in it's own...unique...way.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 06:28 PM

My daughter destroys them.... anyone need a kazoo flattened? Her total is about 6 now (not bad as she is only 4 and only been kazoo squishing for 2 years now....), and that includes the vintage metal one, that gets repaired with plastic bags, the only kazoo with Sainsburys written across it....

LTS

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 07:00 PM

Where have all the kazoos gone?
Long time passing!
Where have all the kazoos gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the kazoos gone?
Gone to closets, every one!
Oh, when will we ever learn?
Oh, when will we ever learn?

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 07:03 PM

I'd suggest replacing "Gone to closets" with "Lost in couches" or "Gone to sofas".........otherwise Dave,its a winner.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 07:25 PM

all I know is, at our local sings, you can count on 4-6 kazoos appearing if a song seems to require it. A kazoo is a wonderful instrument...no capo required

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 07:42 PM

And you don't need muscles like Schwarzenegger to carry the darned thing either!!

(from one who has lumped her fair share of PA and instruments around....)

LTS

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Lena
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 07:58 PM

I went in kazoo's native land(or supposed to be...) twice but I found no tracks of it in folk bands.But I found out why flamingoes are an endangered spieces around there:they make flutes out of their long legs

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 10:49 PM

LOL!

Dave, every time I passed this thread I thought the same thing, but I wasn't brave enough to think of a verse!

:D

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 04:13 AM

I know where they go!

To the same places that the tea spoons, single socks, pens, sellotape, scissors, and tweezers do!

Well that's what goes walkabout in our house...

It's the borrowers.

Hell it's something!

Ella

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: northfolk/al cholger
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 01:03 PM

Thread creep, for those who remember...

" While there is a lower class, I am in it; Where there is a criminal element, I am of it; While there is a soul in prison, I am not free; While there is a Tigers Game, I am in the bleachers." EUGENE V. DEBS

until this year, kazoo impressarios by the thousands converged on Tiger Stadium in Detroit, for the annual Eugene V. Debs Kazoo night...more than an occasional celebrity, many Detroit area lawyers, politicos and ne'er do wells of every persuasion, were together in the bleachers to play old labor songs and raise hijinx.

This year the whole thing came to an end with the move to Comerica Park...Deb's don't do Luxury boxes...look for us in Toledo, or Lansing, or Boston before they close that old landmark...

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 01:15 PM

Come to Fenway, while there is a Fenway, and bring down the walls!

Redsox management just doesn't understand that a new park won't be the same draw. Maybe several thousand kazoos playing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" will wake 'em up!

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: Bert
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 03:21 PM

Now you've gorn an dun it Bill D. Ol Spaw is now duty bound to manufacture the 'Bill D Kazoo Capo and Autoharp muffler'

Bert.

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhránplayerwhodoesn'tknowanybet
Date: 09 Sep 00 - 12:40 PM

So I'm reading this thread entitled "don't miss this" and I hit this blue clicky thing entitled "Where do all the kazoos go?" and it sends me down a worm-hole in Time and Space (probably not entirely unlike the worm-hole in Time and Space where the single socks go) and I end up in this thread in the past and I'm reading it and it and suddenly I come upon Spaw's post referring to the don't miss it thread that I started out in as if that were in the past(which at that point it was) and I get (or got "past tense") confused as to which is in the past and there is a fiendish part of me that wishes I knew how to make a blue clicky thing that would send one back to the "don't miss this" thread thereby forming a sort of Mobius thread strip back and forth between the two threads and part of me is glad that I can't be cause if you can lose a kazoo or a pick or a single sock in a little worm-hole in Time and Space then the Mudcat Mobius Thread Strip could probably eat up a whole guitar and I just realized that this is one really long sentence and I'm not sure where all the periods have gone but if I had to guess, I'd say there probably with the kazoos and lost socks and that is about all I have to say on the subject because, to tell the truth, I've forgotten what the topic was to begin with and now I finally understand what you mean when you say thread creep and there is a sick little part of me which is related to the part of me who liked the idea of the Mudcat Mobius Thread Strip and that part of me isn't the least bit sorry about starting to thread creep because if it's the worst thing I do today then I'm doing alright and if it's not the worst thing I do today then it's not really worth getting upset over so I'll leave you now............................

Rich

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Sep 00 - 01:55 PM

Rich, I really enjoy your stuff and that single sentence probably qualifies as the longest, single sentence in Mudcat History and brings new meaning to the words run-on sentence and even though I got a big laugh and gawd knows you have a funny point there, it is also a problem though not a big one but I mention it because it drives me nuts which I admit is a very short trip and can be argued that that state already exists because its a known fact that I live out where the buses don't run so it doesn't really matter in the least and as you said if its the biggest thing that troubles me today than its a minor point to be sure but I wish ta hell you shoten up that freakin' handle of yours a little bit because every time you post we all know it because the posters list at the top of the thread becomes longer than the thread itself and although I value the thoughts you express and the thought you express as a stupid bodhran player who doesn't know any better could be the truth because you possibly don't and even if you do I wanted to say that that elongated posters list drives me nuts which as I said ain't a big deal but I thought that I'd mention it again as I have before and since you keep posting as a guest although you are certainly a long time poster and I consider you a member, I'd be much obliged if you'd chop a few words or something out of that thing you use as a name although I am speaking only for myself and don't pretend to voice an opinion for anyone else in the place and like I said before, I like you and its not important and since you are not a member I couldn't put this in a Personal Message even though I think you really are a member, just a member sans cookie and in that case I hope you get my message and take no offense from it in any way and I only have one other request and that would be to help me out and tell ne how in the hell to stop writing in this sentence since the habit seems to have set in rather quickly and I remember there is supposed to be some punctuation device to stop this and I think I now see it over here to the lower right so I'll say thanks for your time and understanding in my request for you to shorten up so to speak....................AAHHHHHH.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Where do all the kazoos go???
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhránplayer ;-)
Date: 09 Sep 00 - 03:28 PM

Spaw, I'm not counting words to see which of us posted the longest sentence in mudcat history although it would be a feather in either of our caps to be able to claim such a feat but since I don't own a computer and rely on borrowed computers (hence the lack of a cookie) and therefore remain a GUEST (even though you consider me a member and I appreciate) that I think we could both be winners if I took the title of longest sentence posted by a guest and you take the title of longest sentence posted by a regular member and that way we bother can claim our shallow, meaningless victories and not have to count words because I am only a bodhrán player who only has ten fingeers and ten toes to count and then I would be lost so if we can agree to leave it a t that then I can agree to post under a shorter handle at least some of the time unless I really have to admit that I don't know much on a given thread in which case I will be forced to revert back to my old handle but only in extreme conditions and then you can blow your oppossum at me if you feel angry and while you have it out, I think the Mudcat Mobius Thread Strip would be a great name for a reel and since I don't play a melody instrument as of yet (and my mandolin progress is very slow at best) I think you should write the first reel ever specifically intended on an oppossum-shaped ocarina and name it as such and I'd love to hear ir sometime but I am on my way to the Pittsburgh Irish festival (although it's not worth the trip) so I'll have to hear it at another time but before I go I must say I'm glad it was you who posted on top of my rambling run-on post first because I always enjoy your posts and since you can't send me a private message on the mudcat you can reach me at [e-mail] if you feel the need to and now I must leave but not before first typing the word KAZOO because that is what this thread is about and I want to stick to the topic because otherwise I'd be a thread creep and I wouldn't want to do that twice in one day and that's all for now.

Slán agat,

Rich