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From: Lulu Blue
To: captainkazoo@gmail.com
Date: Feb 10, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: Kazooz Rulz!Hello, Captain Kazoo!

My nephew, Eduardo Louis Cohen, is working on a presentation for music class about the history of the kazoo. While helping Eduardo with some Internet research (he must have parental supervision due to the playboy.com incident a few months ago), I discovered your extensive website about kazoos.

Eduardo is so fond of the kazoo that he recently “borrowed” $195 from his mother’s “mad” money to get a tattoo on his left bicep: Kazooz Rulz!

Since Eduardo’s presentation will determine whether or not he can advance to the 10th grade, I hope you might have time for a few quick questions:
1. Your website includes photos of yourself with many famous people, including Prince Charles, Camilla Parker-Bowles, the singer/songwriter Donovan and Ronald McDonald. Have you taught anyone famous to play the kazoo? If so, can Eduardo include the name and date of the lesson in his report for music class?
2. Would you say the kazoo is less or more difficult to master than the clarinet?
3. What is your favorite brand of kazoo?
4. Have you written any compositions exclusively for the kazoo?

Thank you for your time and assistance! Eduardo and I will look forward to your reply.

All the best,
Lulu BlueFrom: Howard Capp
To: Lulu Blue
Date: Feb 16, 2008 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: Kazooz Rulz!Dear Lulu Blue & Eduardo,

Here are my answers to your ???

Q. Your website includes photos of yourself with many famous people, including Prince Charles, Camilla Parker-Bowles, the singer/songwriter Donovan and Ronald McDonald. Have you taught anyone famous to play the kazoo? If so, can Eduardo include the name and date of the lesson in his report for music class?

A, YES, I taught Ronald how to play the HUMBURGER KAZOO. I believe it was on a sunny day in May of 2000.

Q, Would you say the kazoo is less or more difficult to master than the clarinet?

A. MORE, the Clarinet has keys to make the notes making it VERY EZY to master. The main body of most clarinets is divided into the upper joint whose holes and most keys are operated by the left hand, and the lower joint with holes and most keys operated by the right hand. (Some clarinets have a single joint. On some basset horns and larger clarinets the two joints are held together with a screw clamp and are usually not disassembled for storage.) The left thumb operates both a tone hole and the register key. Interestingly, on some models of clarinet, such as many Albert system clarinets, and increasingly some higher-end Boehm system clarinets, the register key is a ‘wraparound’ key, with the key on the back of the clarinet and the pad on the front. As well as the slightly exotic look this lends to the clarinet, advocates of the wraparound register key advocate improved sound, as well as the benefit that it is harder for condensation to accumulate in the tube beneath the pad.

The KAZOO is ALL MIND WORK…NO MIND, NO WORK !

Q. What is your favorite brand of kazoo?

A. VINTAGE TIN, PLASTIC IS FOR THE BIRDS, THE EAGLES AND THE MONKEES.

Q. Have you written any compositions exclusively for the kazoo?

A. YES, MY COMPOSITION “FLAMENKAZOO” is available on CD. Log on to KAZOOZ RECORDS at: http://www.captainkazoo.com/FLAMZ.HTML.

Of course…I’m being a bit facetious but in all honesty what else can I say except…

THANX FOR ASKIN’ & KEEP ON HUMMIN’.