Barbara Dean Stewart (September 17, 1941 – August 5, 2011) was an American composer and musician, known for her work on the

kazoo The kazoo is an American musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it. It is a type of '' mirliton'' (which itself is a membranophone), one of a class of instruments which modif ...

, both in those fields and as a speaker, researcher, and author. She appeared on ''

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'' and performed at Carnegie Hall. Stewart was the founder of the group Kazoophony, and was called a "kazoo virtuoso". She was the author of ''The Complete How To Kazoo.''

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1941 births 2011 deaths American women composers American women non-fiction writers Musicians from Rochester, New York 21st-century American women {{US-composer-20thC-stub