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Kazoo

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The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. [1]

92 relations: A Night at the Opera (Queen album), Africa, Anthem of the Sun, Barbara Stewart (composer), Beaufort, South Carolina, Benny Gallagher, Broadway theatre, Buffalo, New York, Carnegie Hall, Carnival, Carnival of Cádiz, Charles Ives, Classical music, Comedy, Corporal Clegg, Crosstown Traffic (song), David Bedford, Deck the Halls, Die (manufacturing), Eden, New York, Electric Ladyland, Eric Clapton, Eunuch flute, Eve Graham, Frank Loesser, Frank Zappa, Frankie Trumbauer, Freak Out!, Freddie Mercury, Ghost, Graham Lyle, Grateful Dead, Guinness World Records, Guitar, Harmony Books, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical), Humming, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Isham Jones, Jack Fulton, Jerry Garcia, Jesse Fuller, Jimi Hendrix, Jug band, Juvenile jazz band, Koch Entertainment, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Leonard Bernstein, Lovely Rita, Macon, Georgia, ..., Mass (Bernstein), McGuinness Flint, Membrane, Membranophone, Mound City Blue Blowers, Mungo Jerry, Murga, Naxos Records, North East England, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Paolo Conte, Paul Whiteman, Pink Floyd, Queen (band), Ray Dorset, Red McKenzie, Reed (mouthpiece), Ride of the Valkyries, Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), San Francisco Giants, Sandwich, Illinois, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Smithsonian Folkways, South Wales, Steam Powered Giraffe, Steampunk, Steel Panther, Swazzle, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Tame Impala, The Beatles, The Dam Busters March, The Kazoo Museum, The Mills Brothers, The New Seekers, Timbre, Tony Sbarbaro, Vibration, WAV, When I'm Dead and Gone, With 100 Kazoos, Yoshi's New Island. Expand index (42 more) »

A Night at the Opera (Queen album)

A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Anthem of the Sun

Anthem of the Sun is the second album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.

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Barbara Stewart (composer)

Barbara Dean Stewart (September 17, 1941 – August 5, 2011) was an American composer and musician, known for her work on the kazoo, both in those fields and as a speaker, researcher, and author.

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Beaufort, South Carolina

Beaufort (a different pronunciation from that used by the city with the same name in North Carolina) is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.

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Benny Gallagher

Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher (born 10 June 1945, Largs, Ayrshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Carnival

Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian and Greek Orthodox festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.

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Carnival of Cádiz

Los Carnavales de Cádiz is one of the best-known carnivals in Spain.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Corporal Clegg

"Corporal Clegg" is a song by the English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).

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Crosstown Traffic (song)

"Crosstown Traffic" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix recorded in 1967 and released in 1968.

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David Bedford

David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician.

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Deck the Halls

"Deck the Halls" or "Deck the Hall" (which is the original version of the lyrics) is a traditional Christmas, yuletide, and New Years' carol.

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Die (manufacturing)

A die is a specialized tool used in manufacturing industries to cut or shape material mostly using a press.

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Eden, New York

Eden is a town located south of Buffalo, in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Electric Ladyland

Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Eunuch flute

The eunuch flute, or onion flute, or mirliton (Fr. flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon and mirliton; Ger. Zwiebelflöte) is a musical instrument of the woodwind family used during the 16th and 17th centuries, producing music akin to the comb-music of the nursery, and still manufactured as a toy ("mirliton").

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Eve Graham

Eve Graham (born Evelyn May Beatson; 19 April 1943) is a Scottish singer who found fame in the early 1970s with the pop group, The New Seekers.

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Frank Loesser

Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Frankie Trumbauer

Orie Frank Trumbauer (May 30, 1901 – June 11, 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Freak Out!

Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966, on Verve Records.

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Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 194624 November 1991) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.

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Graham Lyle

Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harmony Books

Harmony Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, itself part of publisher Penguin Random House.

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name.

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Humming

A hum is a sound made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth opened or closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.

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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game.

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Isham Jones

Isham Edgar Jones (January 31, 1894 – October 19, 1956) was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.

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Jack Fulton

Jack Fulton (June 13, 1903 – November 13, 1993) was an American composer, trombonist, and vocalist.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jug band

A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments.

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Juvenile jazz band

Juvenile jazz bands are a type of children's marching band that started in the 20th century almost exclusively in working class mining areas of the North of England and the Midlands, with a few bands in the mining areas of Wales.

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Koch Entertainment

Koch Entertainment was a North American record label and a distributor of film, television, and music.

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Lovely Rita

"Lovely Rita" is a song by the Beatles performed on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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Macon, Georgia

Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county located in the state of Georgia, United States.

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Mass (Bernstein)

Mass (formally: MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein with text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.

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McGuinness Flint

McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle.

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Membrane

A membrane is a selective barrier; it allows some things to pass through but stops others.

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Membranophone

A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.

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Mound City Blue Blowers

The Mound City Blue Blowers were an American novelty jazz ensemble, formed in St. Louis, Missouri and given its nickname.

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Mungo Jerry

Mungo Jerry are a British rock group who experienced their greatest success in the early 1970s, with a changing line-up that has always been fronted by Ray Dorset.

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Murga

Murga is a form of popular musical theatre performed in Montevideo, Uruguay, Argentina and Badajoz, Spain during the Carnival season.

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Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music.

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North East England

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Original Dixieland Jass Band

The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917.

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Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte (born January 6, 1937) is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions (evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music, South American atmospheres, and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens) and his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics.

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Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Ray Dorset

Raymond Edward Dorset (born 21 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder of Mungo Jerry.

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Red McKenzie

Red McKenzie (William McKenzie) (October 14, 1899, St. Louis, Missouri - February 7, 1948, New York City) was an American jazz musician.

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Reed (mouthpiece)

A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

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Ride of the Valkyries

The "Ride of the Valkyries" (or Ritt der Walküren|) refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

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Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)

Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

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San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.

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Sandwich, Illinois

Sandwich is a city in DeKalb, Kendall, and LaSalle counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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Steam Powered Giraffe

Steam Powered Giraffe (SPG) is an American steampunk musical project formed in San Diego in 2008, self-described as "a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry, ballet, comedy, projections, and music".

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Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

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Steel Panther

Steel Panther is an American comedic glam metal band from Los Angeles, California, mostly known for their profane and humorous lyrics, as well as their exaggerated on-stage personae that reenact the stereotypical 1980s "glam metal" lifestyle.

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Swazzle

A swazzle (swozzle, schwazzle or swatchel) is a device made of two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed.

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

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Tame Impala

Tame Impala is a psychedelic rock band conceived by Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Dam Busters March

The Dam Busters March is the theme to the 1955 British war film The Dam Busters.

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The Kazoo Museum

The Kazoo Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the kazoo, located in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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The Mills Brothers

The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed the Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony, were an African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.

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The New Seekers

The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, the Seekers.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tony Sbarbaro

Antonio Sparbaro, known professionally as Tony Sbarbaro or Tony Spargo (June 27, 1897 – October 30, 1969) was an American jazz drummer associated with New Orleans jazz.

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Vibration

Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension - both pronounced "wave") (rarely, Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.

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When I'm Dead and Gone

"When I'm Dead and Gone" is a song written by Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle.

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With 100 Kazoos

With 100 Kazoos is a work for chamber ensemble and 100 kazoos by the British composer David Bedford.

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Yoshi's New Island

Yoshi's New Island is a 2014 platform game developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazoo

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