This afternoon I went to a kazoo factory. It was the only kazoo factory in North America. Inside they had the originals from the olden times that were made from wood. The more recent ones were made from metal and had been bent into different shapes that resembled a type of musical instrument or vehicle, such as, tractor on wheels, bi-plane, sailboat, French horns, trumpets, trombones, and the best was a cobra. Many of the little pieces of the kazoos are made from parts from musical instruments. In a separate room, big machinery stood outlining the perimeter of the room. Each machine did only one job to put together the kazoo. The machinery was used during the 1800s and is still being used today. The first step was the stamping of the metal with the name of the factory name and city on it, which was Eden, New York . The guide there told us that if you have a kazoo and it says that it was made in China and is made of plastic, then you don’t have the original kazoo. It’s only the kazoos that are made in Eden, New York, and are made from metal that are the original kazoos.
-- Mina