Qualla: The Kazoo Museum https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/y/8/the-kazoo-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Kazoo Museum https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum The Kazoo Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum/ Photo credit bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0. There is a building in Beaufort, South Carolina, where a century-old kazoo sits in a glass case next to one shaped like Snoopy, another that appeared on The Partridge Family, and an electric model that nobody asked for but everybody wants to try. The Kazoo Museum, tucked inside the Kazoobie Kazoos factory, houses nearly 200 kazoo-related artifacts and claims one of the largest private kazoo collections in the world. It is a museum dedicated entirely to an instrument that most people dismiss as a toy -- and it got here by way of Seattle, Portland, and a television personality named Boaz Frankel who simply could not stop collecting them.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/y/8/the-kazoo-museum-wp/djy8-the-kazoo-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Kazoo Museum: A Collector's Obsession Takes Shape https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum/ Photo credit bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0. The story begins with Boaz Frankel, a television personality and self-described kazoo enthusiast who started amassing kazoos in 2007 while living in Seattle. His collection started modestly -- around a hundred instruments, plus patents, sheet music, books, and records tracing the...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/y/8/the-kazoo-museum-wp/djy8-the-kazoo-museum-a-collectors-obsession-takes-shape.mp3 0:06 2 full The Kazoo Museum: The Factory That Hummed Along https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum/ Photo credit bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0. Enter Kazoobie Kazoos, one of the world's largest kazoo distributors. Founded by Rick Hubbard and Gayle Andrus, the company had bounced between Hilton Head Island and Florida before co-owner Steven Murray brought operations back to his hometown of Beaufort in 2009. Kazoobie invit...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/y/8/the-kazoo-museum-wp/djy8-the-kazoo-museum-the-factory-that-hummed-along.mp3 0:06 3 full The Kazoo Museum: Behind the Glass https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum/ Photo credit bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0. The collection fills a dedicated building at the Kazoobie factory, every item displayed behind glass cases like the treasures they are -- at least to the devoted. There are kazoos over a hundred years old, relics from an era when the instrument was a legitimate fixture in America...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/y/8/the-kazoo-museum-wp/djy8-the-kazoo-museum-behind-the-glass.mp3 0:06 4 full The Kazoo Museum: Beaufort's Unlikely Treasure https://qualla.com/the-kazoo-museum/ Photo credit bobistraveling, CC BY 2.0. Beaufort, South Carolina, is known for its antebellum architecture, its tidal marshes, and its place in Civil War history. A kazoo museum does not appear on the obvious list of local attractions. And yet it fits. This is a town that has always collected stories -- some grand, som...

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