Kaz Brekker appreciation post. Because isn’t he just so dreamy? If he isn’t the man of my dreams. Then I’ve got no dreams. I could even say he’s the man of my nightmares... But if he’s in them, would they even be nightmares?
For very important scientific reasons, this morning I woke up and found out that playing the kazoo isn’t actually as easy as it seems.
My first thought about it was “Aw, how talented” referring to you-know-who, but let’s delve into some details. I have collected my favorite curiosities down here for you:
You don’t just blow into the kazoo, neither you “hmmm” into it. You have to actually sing into it to make it work. Sounds like an effort to me.
The end you have to sing in is the flat one, not the pointy one.
Now, my favorite part. These are some of the syllables identified on Wikipedia to change notes on the kazoo: doo, too, who, rrrrr or brrr. “rrrrr or brrr”, understand?
Before Papa - but not as good as him - the kazoo was used by Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and also Rammstein. Apparently, no pop singer had the same steel balls to use the kazoo in their songs. This makes it a very badass instrument, if you ask me.
In 2011, “At the Royal Albert Hall, 3.910 kazooists played Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries”. Just epic.
The kazoo is strictly related to the PARTY HORN - which is not an instrument - and the Eunuch flute (Mirlitone). And about the Eunuch flute, “the Creole composer, Edmond Dédé wrote Méphisto Masqué for grand orchestra and a fanfare of Mirlitone Instruments”. The devil is always around the corner here.
Papa played a kazoo with a square filter, instead of the more common round one. I hoped to find something interesting about it but honestly no, it is just that. The bravest of you will find a connection with Square Hammer, I just know it.
As a bonus, I’d like to remind you that Papa had a professional, tiny kazoo stand for his precious instrument.
And Gale is happy that it was not a slide whistle…
But, imagine at the start of battle… and it is all serious and the bard/rogue runs in at full force at someone playing the kazoo as they run in for the attack.
Headcanon: besides singing and writing, Terzo has no musical talent. He can't plays drums, guitar, or keyboard. He can't even play the harmonica. That's why he has the kazoo. The kazoo was given to him as a joke by Primo, Primo didn't expect his younger brother to love the annoying little thing as much as he did.
His first kazoo was eventually destroyed by Secondo. Primo hated the thing, but he felt so bad about Terzo's kazoo being.broken by their middle brother that he bought another one. Eventually Terzo began to buy himself kazoos. Occasionally he'll still lose one to Secondo, maybe every now and then to Nihil. He only lost one to Sister Imperator once, she scared him so thoroughly that he never bothered her with it again.