Have some breakfast and celebrate another obscure holiday!
Where:
JP's Taproom & Grill
13038 SE Kent-Kangley Rd, Kent, WA 98030
When:
10:00am - 11:00am
Why:
It's National Kazoo Day! People young and old love Kazoos. Kazoo Day celebrates the the joy of this musical instrument. I'll have some kazoos to give away or bring your own.
BIG AUSSIE BONUS:
This event takes place on Australia Day Souvenir weekend, so you will get an Australia Day souvenir if you attend this event.
To celebrate Australia Day, we will all play Waltzing Matilda together on our kazoos.
Don't know it or don't remember it? Brush up here.
What do all those funny words mean? Find out here.
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What:
The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a buzzing timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. 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.
The kazoo was created by 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.
