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Summary: Most wittily eccentric book on my shelf!
Review: I don't remember seeing a kazoo in a Beale St. club, but it certainly would be appropriate! Nothing says "Blues" better than a droning kazoo. This book puts the kazoo within reach of everyone! Serious and funny at the same time.
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Summary: Most wittily eccentric book on my shelf!
Review: My kids wanted it and they convinced me. Now I think it's great. The book imparts the psuedo-skill of world-class kazoophonics with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Worth it for the illustrations alone.
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Summary: The kazoo levels the playing field
Review: The kazoo is a wonderful antidote to the notion that all music requires either a life-time to learn to play, or the purchase of a CD to enjoy. The kazoo brings us back to what our childhood taught us--and years of music lessons and choir practices tried to make us forget--that music is a shared bit of fun, nearly as important as--and with no requirement that it be much more difficult than--breathing. Barbara Stewart's small book takes an appropriately light tone to make the point that playing a kazoo is a fun and worthwhile past-time. This is not one of those "heavy-reading" history of an instrument works. This is an intelligent but decidedly light-hearted reintroduction to music-as-fun, instead of music as something played on compact disks. Although I love the sound of a good piano being played, I wonder if life might not be a little more fun for kids if they had fewer piano lessons and more time with a kazoo. As for adults, this book will help you rediscover that you can be musical, and it only costs a dollar or two to rediscover your lost musicality.
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Summary: The kazoo levels the playing field
Review: The kazoo is a wonderful antidote to the notion that all music requires either a life-time to learn to play, or the purchase of a CD to enjoy. The kazoo brings us back to what our childhood taught us--and years of music lessons and choir practices tried to make us forget--that music is a shared bit of fun, nearly as important as--and with no requirement that it be much more difficult than--breathing. Barbara Stewart's small book takes an appropriately light tone to make the point that playing a kazoo is a fun and worthwhile past-time. This is not one of those "heavy-reading" history of an instrument works. This is an intelligent but decidedly light-hearted reintroduction to music-as-fun, instead of music as something played on compact disks. Although I love the sound of a good piano being played, I wonder if life might not be a little more fun for kids if they had fewer piano lessons and more time with a kazoo. As for adults, this book will help you rediscover that you can be musical, and it only costs a dollar or two to rediscover your lost musicality.
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Summary: Best Kazoo book ever.
Review: This is the best of all the kazoo books I have ever read. Seriously, it is a work of delight from someone with the wit and talent to support her interest in music and humor. Timeless.
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