jazz musician manages to get a tune out of the vuvuzela

http://www.barganews.com/2010/06/12/world-cup-fever-starts-with-the-vuvuzela/

World Cup fever starts in Barga and local jazz musician Alessandro Rizzardi manages to get a tune out of the vuvuzela


The World Cup 2010 started today in South Africa and Barga is already buzzing and humming with football talk. The Lake Angels up at Vignola are not the only ones well prepared for the games (article here) as many of the restaurants have also put up large tv screens for their customers to watch the games. World Cup fever has started.

A new sound has also started to arrive in the piazzas -- that of local kids blowing on plastic vuvuzela trumpets.

So what are vuvuzela ? By itself, it's just a small plastic trumpet that probably cost less than a euro to make and creates no known musical notes. But when thousands of people toot them simultaneously, you get a loud, incessant hum that makes the entire stadium sound like it's being attacked by angry bees. It's a staple at any South African soccer match and ... surprise! Everyone hates it!

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• barga
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• world
• cup

[AerialTheShamen]

I have now uploaded my Vuvuzela Music FAQ. It also shows that "Beat Horn" in detail.

latexmindresearch.tripod.com/V­uvuzelaMusicFAQ.htm

[AerialTheShamen]

This is a plastic horn with pseudo-rubber diaphragm that has nothing to do with a kazoo trumpet but functions like a canned air horn (only mouth operated). I got a similar "The Beat - Horn" by Powco that I find really hard to play melodically this way. Especially it stays always very loud because unlike vuvuzelas it refuses to sound at all when blown softer, and it stinks badly of solvents.

[AerialTheShamen]

@Matrix29bear The kazoo contains a diaphragm that vibrates by voice. A standard vuvuzela has none thus you have to vibrate your lips (by blowing or by voice) to get a sound. (I write an FAQ about the vuvuzela - I can make sounds on it almost like a saxophone.)

[Matrix29bear]

It is a Kazoo Trumpet.

If you love Kazoos and you love Trumpets, then this is an ideal instrument.