Beaufort's Kazoo Factory
Kazoobie Kazoos, located in Beaufort South Carolina, is America's only full-time kazoo factory. The company ships fun all over the world and offers folks a tour around the museum and factory. At the end of the tour they even offer guests a chance to make their very own kazoo.
Kazoobie, Inc.
12 John Galt Road
Beaufort, SC 29906
1-800-326-0358
Toll-Free Ordering
843-982-6387
(Local or International Callers)
9:00 AM till 5:00 PM EST
Monday - Friday
Kazoobie Kazoos
Kazoobie Kazoos, located at 12 John Galt Road in Beaufort, SC, is the only plastic kazoo factory in the United States. They assemble and sell almost a million kazoos every year and ship them all over the world. Also available for visitors to enjoy is a gift shop and a museum of kazoo memorabilia and history.
Final Kazoo Update for Emily in South Carolina and Steve in Arkansas
I specialize in special order custom handmade classic American wooden folk kazoos for performing musicians, family kazooist and collectors around the world.
With all Special Order Kazoos you are invited to visit The Great Aswego Kazoo Factory Workshop via video and watch your actual Custom Handmade Kazoo being made by Doc Kazoo from start to finish.
All Special Order Kazoos are shipped within one week of ordering. They are always shipped on time, never shipped late and most times are shipped early.
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Doc Kazoo is an independent folk artist specializing in Special Order Unique Custom Handmade Wooden Folk Kazoos for Performing Musicians around the world. No two kazoos are ever identical!! For more information about Aswego Kazoos and Doc Kazoo just Google Search Doc Kazoo or drop by the homestead and kazoo factory website at:
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This video may contain copyrighted audio playing on the workshop CD player while Doc Kazoo is working. This video is intended to provide the viewer a true view of the workshop atmosphere as he is making kazoos. No profit is made from this video. It is made for artistic demonstration and educational purposes only. There is no charge for this video. U.S. Copyright Law allows for the use of such material for instructional and demonstration purposes.
The Most Beautiful Sound You've Ever Heard At The Kazoobie Kazoo Factory
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We stopped at the Kazoobie Kazoo Factory in Beaufort SC on our 5 year, 50 state road trip.
After making our kazoos, it was time to make sure they sounded OK. Here's our stunning rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (minus the first note as the video started recording late!)
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302 Carteret St, Beaufort, SC
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Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. The city's population was 12,361 in the 2010 census. It is a primary city within the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Beaufort is located on Port Royal Island, in the heart of the Sea Islands and South Carolina Lowcountry. The city is renowned for its scenic location and for maintaining a historic character by preservation of its antebellum architecture. The city is also known for its military establishments, being located in close proximity to Parris Island and a U.S. naval hospital, in addition to being home of the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
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Jammin' at the Frog.
Every Tuesday evening local residents of the South Carolina Lowcountry gather at the Foolish frog Restaurant in Frogmore, SC to jam to the old country tunes that they learned as they grew up.
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The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a buzzing timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes or hums into it. It is a type of mirliton, which is a membranophone, one of a class of instruments which modifies its player's voice by way of a vibrating membrane of goldbeater's skin or material with similar characteristics.
Similar hide-covered vibrating and voice-changing instruments have been used in Africa for hundreds of years, often for ceremonial purposes.
A kazoo player hums, rather than blows, into the instrument. The oscillating air pressure of the hum makes the kazoo's membrane vibrate. The resulting sound varies in pitch and loudness with the player's humming. Players can produce different sounds by singing specific syllables such as doo, who, rrrrr or brrrr into the kazoo.
Some people refer to the kazoo's membrane as a reed, considering it performs the same action in the kazoo as it would a woodwind instrument, however reeds are made of cane (or a synthetic equivalent), while the membrane (most commonly made of waxy paper) is not.
A popular belief is that Alabama Vest, an African-American in Macon, Georgia, was the one who invented the kazoo around 1840, although there is no documentation to support that claim. The story originated with the Kaminsky International Kazoo Quartet, a group of satirical kazoo players, which may cast doubt on the veracity of the story, as does the name Alabama Vest itself.
In 1879, Simon Seller received a patent for a Toy Trumpet that worked on the same principle as a kazoo: By blowing through the tube A, and at the same time humming a sort of a head sound, a musical vibration is given to the paper covering c over the aperture b, and a sound produced pleasing to the ear. Seller's toy trumpet was basically a hollow sheet-metal tube, with a rectangular aperture cut out along the length of the tube, with paper covering the aperture, and a funnel at the end, like the bell of a trumpet. The first documented appearance of a kazoo was that created by an American inventor, Warren Herbert Frost, who named his new musical instrument kazoo in his patent #270,543 issued on January 9, 1883. The patent states, This instrument or toy, to which I propose to give the name 'kazoo' ... Frost's kazoo did not have the streamlined, submarine shape of modern kazoos, but it was similar in that the aperture was circular and elevated above the length of the tube. The modern kazoo—also the first one made of metal—was patented by George D. Smith of Buffalo, New York, May 27, 1902.
In 1916, the Original American Kazoo Company in Eden, New York started manufacturing kazoos for the masses in a two-room shop and factory, utilizing a couple of dozen jack presses for cutting, bending and crimping metal sheets. These machines were used for many decades. By 1994, the company produced 1.5 million kazoos per year and was the only manufacturer of metal kazoos in North America. The factory, in nearly its original configuration, is now called The Kazoo Factory and Museum. It is still operating, and it is open to the public for tours.
In 2010, The Kazoo Museum opened in Beaufort, South Carolina with exhibits on kazoo history.
The kazoo is played professionally in jug bands and comedy music, and by amateurs everywhere. It is among the acoustic instruments developed in the United States, and one of the easiest melodic instruments to play, requiring only the ability to vocalize in tune. In North East England and South Wales, kazoos play an important role in juvenile jazz bands. During Carnival, players use kazoos in the Carnival of Cádiz in Spain and in the corsos on the murgas in Uruguay.
In the Original Dixieland Jass Band 1921 recording of Crazy Blues, what the casual listener might mistake for a trombone solo is actually a kazoo solo by drummer Tony Sbarbaro.
Red McKenzie played kazoo in a Mound City Blue Blowers 1929 film short. The Mound City Blue Blowers had a number of hit kazoo records in the early 1920s featuring Dick Slevin on metal kazoo and Red McKenzie on comb-and-tissue-paper (although McKenzie also played metal kazoo). The vocaphone, a kind of kazoo with a trombone-like tone, was occasionally featured in Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. Trombonist-vocalist Jack Fulton played it on Whiteman's recording of Vilia (1931) and Frankie Trumbauer's Medley of Isham Jones Dance Hits (1932). The Mills Brothers vocal group originally started in vaudeville as a kazoo quartet, playing four-part harmony on kazoo with one brother accompanying them on guitar.
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