kazoo

“The analogy is like an instrument — a little, small kazoo, you can’t make it very loud,” Scharer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

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

Her favorite is this 1950s-era helmet in the Destination Moon gallery with a kazoo mouthpiece.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022

Oh, where abides the fond kazoo, The barrel-organ fair, And where is heard the tra-la-loo Of fish horns on the air?

From Hoosier Lyrics by Eugene Field

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

Live entertainment district, even as picketing hotel workers lined the sides of the street playing drums and kazoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

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