Today is National Kazoo Day

Image Credit: kazoos.com

Today we celebrate 164 years of playing the kazoo in America. It is recorded that the kazoo was first presented to the world at the Georgia State Fair in 1852 and called the "Down South Submarine."

Here are some Kazoo facts from nationalkazooday.com:

• The kazoo was first produced in the USA around 1852
• The kazoo was co-invented by a black man, Alabama Vest, and a German clockmaker, Thaddeus Von Klegg
• The kazoo was played often in popular music in the late 1800's through the early 1900's
• Kazoos can be made of plastic, metal, wood or other materials. Each has unique sound qualities
• The tone quality of a kazoo is determined by the quality of the membrane or resonator
• You don't blow into a kazoo, you HUM into it
• HUM into the BIG end of the kazoo
• Kazoos are not toys - they are musical instruments in the mirliton or membranophone family
• Kazoo are NOT related to vuvuzelas

Kazoobie Kazoos is America's only full-time kazoo factory, located in Beaufort, South Carolina.

HAPPY NATIONAL KAZOO DAY!