March 5, 2016 - Binghamton Parade Day - 2015 was another success!!
March 12, 2016 - Syracuse Parade Day, taking names for the bus. Cost is $25 - a fun time was had by all in 2015!!
Wrap Up Party - April 30, 2016
We will have our annual wrap-up party April 30th. It will be held at the AOH HALL, 148 Main Street, Binghamton. Please park across the street in the funeral home parking lot.
Cost is $2 for kazooers who have paid their dues, Guests are $8, also $8 for those kazooers who have not paid dues.
Time is 6:00, dinner will be served (catered by Koban Caterers), and a cash bar will be available. Music this year is by Donal O'Shaughnessy..
Please RSVP .... ASAP!!!!! (no later then April 15th)
PARADE DAY 2016 WILL BE HELD ON
MARCH 5th
MARCH 5th
Two years later, with the addition of The Duke of Percussion, Duke Fisher, we were able to have a complete percussion section of professional quality. Duke also brought with him the "Street Beat" from the Bainbridge-Guilford High School Marching Blues. Sadly and without warning, Duke disappeared a few years later, a victim of intense domestic tranquility.
The manufactured kazoo was invented by Alabama Vest, made to his specifications by Thaddeus Von Clegg in Georgia in the mid 1840's. A traveling salesman by the name of Emil Sorg brought the idea of manufacturing them in Western New York in about 1912. He teamed up with Michael McIntyre and Harry Richardson and began producing them in 1914, and received a patent in 1923. A kazoo is a toy wind instrument, usually made of plastic, metal or wood. It is generally shaped like a tube with a hole in the top, the hole is covered with a thin membrane. 
