Kazoo (1884)

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I was reading the Fireman's Journal from 1884 when I came across "kazoo  
band." The kazoo konundrum kontinues.
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(OED)
kazoo
[Of U.S. origin; app. with some reference to the  sound.]   
(See quot. 1938.) Now also made of  plastic or metal and played as a jazz 
instrument.  

1884 in Lisbon (Dak.) Star 31 Oct., A kazoo is an instrument invented to give 
pleasure and  satisfaction to the small boy. 1895  Montgomery Ward Catal. 
245/3  Kazoos, the great musical wonder,..anyone can play it; imitates  fowls, 
animals, bagpipes, etc. 1926 Daily  Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Jan. 9/3 There 
will  be an abundance of paper hats, balloons, kazoos and other novelties. 
1926 _WHITEMAN_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w2.html#whiteman)  & 
_MCBRIDE_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-m.html#mcbride)  Jazz ix. 201 
Did you  ever see a kazoo? Of course you must Did a small worthless-looking 
piece of tin. A kazoo  stuck into a mute will give a buzzy sound that comes 
handy in certain pieces. 1927 Bulletin 24 Aug., A new musical  atrocity is 
reported to be coming to Scotland. It is the Gazoo. This instrument  of ear-torture 
is simply an adaptation of the primitive ‘comb and tissue paper’. 1938 Oxf.  
Compan. Mus. 583/2 Mirliton, the French  name for what English children call 
(or used to call) ‘Tommy Talker’, or  ‘kazoo’. It is a tube with a membrane at 
each end and two holes in the side,  near the two ends, into one of which 
holes one sings in one's natural voice, the  tone issuing in a caricatural 
fashion. 1938 _‘R.  HYDE’_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-h4.html#r-hyde) 
 Nor Years Condemn x. 195 The  Maoris could make the dish-like gazookas of 
tin and wire sound like  guitars.
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(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
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_What  is a Kaioo?_ 
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=547556792&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1116407492&clien
tId=65882) 
Detroit Free Press. Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960). Boston, Mass.: Aug 2, 
1884. p.  2 (1 page) :
_What is a Kazoo?
[Detroit Free Press]
A kazoo is an instrument invented to give pleasure and satisfaction to the  
small boy. It is a cross between a bagpipe and an accordion with several new 
and  pleasing features of its own. It can make more noise and even less music 
than a  brass band. It can imitate the warbling of a cat or the screech of a 
mocking  bird. The inventor would be hanged, drawn, quartered and burnt, but it 
is more  than likely that he is kept out of the way in some insane asylum. When 
you hear  a noise like the combined sounds of a fish-horn and a runaway, do 
not imagine it  is the end of the world. It is only the small boy amusing 
himself peaceably with  his kazoo.
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
     _The Fitchburg Sentinel _ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=lrCUoQlefzKKID/6NLMW2hOTmJ4yFvFonejGSAedXbpBhCfh+54Bp0IF+CsZYmrz)  Tuesday, 
July 15, 1884 _Fitchburg,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+city:fitchburg+AND+state:massachusetts)  
_Massachusetts_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+state:massachusetts)      ...solos on the Japanese  Xylophone 
and KAZOO. Tbe Irrepressible Trumplet  Wild..
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     _The Fitchburg Sentinel _ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=lrCUoQlefzKKID/6NLMW2hOTmJ4yFvFonejGSAedXbovHsgA2iRoPUIF+CsZYmrz)  Friday, 
July 18, 1884 _Fitchburg,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+city:fitchburg+AND+state:massachusetts)  
_Massachusetts_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+state:massachusetts)       
...solos on tbe Japane-e  Xylophone and KAZOO. Tbe Irrepres.lble Trompley 
Wild..
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     _The News _ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=ssVO2f5ZuruKID/6NLMW2tL8zAe4Hh9ewvVDZlYuxxThQzUPkay3rkIF+CsZYmrz)  Monday, November 03, 
1884 _Frederick,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+city:frederick+AND+state:maryland)  _Maryland_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=kazoo+AND+range:1880-1884+AND+state:m
aryland)       
...greedily claims to  have originated tbe KAZOO 3987 B. Before the used it  
to..
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