kazoo

Behind the scenes, Moreno formulated her own Spanish-language takes on jazz, which listeners can hear in the 2006 funky, spy-like chromatic track “Escondidos” — which includes a kazoo solo in its outro.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

While lit with the penumbra of a spotlight aimed elsewhere, he coolly mimed the smoking of a cigarette with a kazoo.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

She was playing the kazoo and poking around.

From Salon ● May 21, 2023

When you order a picnic kit at 14th Street sub shop Compliments Only, there’s a kazoo thrown in along with plates and napkins.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

This is because your writer uses his kazoo in getting even with his supposed enemy—he flings the rhetorical stinkpot with precision, and his grievances come into a prominence all out of keeping with their importance.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings out the score’s color and propulsion, and the excellent Met Opera chorus creates the seething world of the dead, occasionally playing kazoos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I take great pride in knowing that no one would think I’m the creation of A.I., even if that means acknowledging that I’m an acquired taste at best, “Hava Nagila” played on kazoos at worst.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026

Students in other classrooms in this hallway learned about the amplification of sound — using kazoos, much to the dismay of neighboring teachers — while others created bubble wands or wind-powered cars.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022

Witnessing the past four years of Wall’s career has been like trying to slow dance to a syncopated mess of kazoos and congas.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

But the ragged little "poh white" used to sit beside her piano by the hour and try to get in an alto with one of those kazoos that boys hum through.

From Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald