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In 1836 the eccentricity of the town's founder prompted residents to change the community's name to Kalamazoo. Indignant, Bronson moved to Illinois. A decade after Bronson purchased his land along the Kalamazoo River, Kalamazoo County boasted over seven thousand people, making it Michigan's ninth most populated county.
George D. Smith of Buffalo, NY patented the first metal kazoo in 1902 and production soon began at the Great American Kazoo Company which continued making kazoos for nearly 100 years. Informal kazoo bands made of children and adults alike started sprouting up across the nation from Washington, D.C to Hawaii.HE KAZOO MUSEUM. Beaufort, SC. Mystery surrounds the story of the kazoo's creation, though it was undoubtedly invented in the United States of America. Legend has it that Alabama Vest, an African American, conceived of the kazoo and brought the idea to German-American clockmaker Thaddeus Von Clegg.