| Kazoo as a Broadway instrument - and not |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 12:48 pm EDT 06/04/23 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:42 pm EDT 06/04/23 |
| In reply to: Everybody Grab a Kazoo: Musician’s Union and HERE LIES LOVE Reach New Deal - Unhookthestars 03:42 pm EDT 06/03/23 |
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Most people out here are probably aware of the marvelously whimsical use of the kazoo as a pit instrument in How To Succeed - the wind players all double on kazoo in the middle of "I Believe In You" to represent an electric razor as Finch shaves in preparation for the big advertising meeting. I think it's one of the most wonderfully silly - and apt - bits of unconventional orchestration in a Broadway show. Thank you, orchestrator Red Ginzler.
Then I got a look at the full score for the most recent revival of the show, to see that the kazoo sound was put in the synth part, so that the reed players could be playing other things during that section.
Synth kazoo. That's right. Even the damn kazoo can get replaced.
I have to admit, as a keyboard player yet - that makes me angry. Can't we really just have real kazoos, for god's sake? (And I've always been a huge fan of Doug Besterman's work - but I really wish I could slug him for that.) |
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