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Old 05-20-2008, 01:04 PM
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My kazoo is always off key and I haven't figured out how to tune it!
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Old 05-20-2008, 07:15 PM
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You should tape a key to the bottom of your kazoo so that when people tell you it is off key you can show them that it is right on top of its key.
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Old 05-21-2008, 09:15 AM
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If it's a minature harmonica that you are using, be careful, I inhaled through my mouth while doing a version of the Orange Blossom Special one evening and nearly swallowed it.
Can you imagine a Heimlich Maneuver during a gig trying to dislodge a harmonice from someones throat?
If it happens to you make sure the drummer administers the maneuver so he can keep your groove going...
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May be because I know, once I was suppose to blow confetti out off a tube, but when I inhale, to blow the confetti, it came too ! . . .

Ouch, there was not even a drum to beat me up.
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Old 11-10-2008, 11:41 AM
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Dimitri, the great Swiss clown, used a tiny harmonica to great effect in his concerts.

The premise of the evening was Dimitri's (often frustrated) desire to play music. Early on, he discovered the small harmonica (in an impossibly large trunk, as I remember) and bringing it triumphantly to his lips, was only able to make a few notes before he swallowed it.

Alas! But there was still an evening to fill and Dimitri was able to find, improvise, and play (masterfully) an astonishing number of much larger and more impressive intruments before the curtain fell.

It was at his curtain call, that the true genius of the clown revealed itself. After a consumate presentation of physical, comical, and musical artistry, Dimitri received call after call.

And then, just as the cheers began to fade, he had an "unexpected" burp. That long forgotten harmonica appeared between his lips and he was able to play his encore!

Simple - and magical!
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Old 11-14-2008, 11:52 AM
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This tread name is "HELP" >
So that mean either you stuck and look for some real help from your fellow red noses or tell us when something real bad happened into your show.

A few years ago, I was doing a magic and illusion show in some theatre with two lady assitants and one guy. On a certain time I was suppose to vanish a zombie skeleton head to change into a ball with a dove, where the dove have to go into a cage to be changed to a bunny to be vanished again in another box. But on stage I realized my assistants forgot to load the animals, which they were suppose to do ! Needless to say the props just stay on stage for decoration, until removed. So my lesson was, just do all the work yourself, and let your assistants do their job, just by beiing pretty for your show.
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a Heimlich Maneuver

Sure you don't mean "Hind Lick" maneuver??????
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