jazzophonen.
/ˈdʒazəfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈdʒæzəˌfoʊn/ Now historical.
A type of musical instrument (see note).The jazzophone appears to have enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s. A contemporary advertisement (1928) illustrates a trumpet with two bells, one muted. In addition to the three trumpet valves, there is a fourth which, when pressed, switches between the two bells. The jazzophone was also sometimes in the shape of a saxophone, with a trumpet mouthpiece. New Grove Dict. Music (2001) (Electronic ed.) at Kazoo states that the term jazzophone was applied to a type of kazoo fitted with a trumpet or trombone bell at one end.
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1926 (title of song) Keep your hands off that jazzophone.
1927–36 ‘Blues Birdhead’ (title of song) Get up off that jazzophone.
1930 H. Redwood God in Slums ix. 86 Mouth organ and jazzophone bands.
1939 Amer. Speech 14 4 A ‘saxpert’ is a saxophone expert who plays on a ‘sexophone’ or ‘jazzophone’.
1985 Early Music 13 568/1 Two entertaining instruments of more recent times were a Jazzophone (£500) and a Swanee Saxophone (£350).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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