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Hum along with the Original Kazoo
The name of the place says it all: The Original Kazoo Co. And, boy, do its owners mean original. The same belt and pulley machines that stamped and shaped the world's first metal kazoos circa 1900 still stamp and shape kazoos today. The machines are still in the same building, making the same ker-thwunk sound as they perforate, fold and shape.
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Karen Smith, left, and Kathy Rice have some fun at the Original Kazoo Co., in Eden, N.Y. If there was ever the temptation to modernize the kazoo-making operation as the business changed hands over the years, it didn't last.
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