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Motivational Monday: Kazookeylele & “The Final Countdown”

by Brett McQueen

What do you get when you combine a kazoo with a toy piano and a ukulele? This:

Apparently, the guy in the video made this instrument out of a baby piano and a broken ukulele.

He says, “I found the Baby Piano in Inverness [United Kingdom]. The ukulele was a broken one I had laying around. I just put two and two together, seemed sensible to me.”

It’s amazing how far a little creativity and ingenuity can take you. Anyone else ever made their own instrument or thought a little outside of the box for a performance?

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