Kazookeylele - photo courtesy mmmfruity.com

If you don’t crack a smile at the video below, you have no soul.

Multi-instrument contraptions need to catch on, and Stuart David Crout took it to new heights in 2008 with more than 8 million YouTube views. He rocks a sawed-off ukulele/keyboard/kazoo (pictured left), otherwise known as the kazookeylele.

Where are all the other instrument mashups? Stand up and be seen!

Oobject.com features some head-scratchers, like the 5-stringed chicken cooker and bikelophone, but these seriously need a bigger primetime slot in our lives. I expect a clever contraption to be featured at next year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Phonofiddler - image courtesy Infrogmation

Check out the phonofiddle (pictured right) being played by this fine gentleman in the pink hat. He slides the bow, and sound blares out of the horn.

When I did a video about cigar box guitars, I learned that Appalachian mountain music inspired all sorts of DIY music mashups, often with household items. Milk crates earned twangy strings. Washtubs donned vibrating cords. Washbins = percussion.

Kazokeylele Crout (below), hats off to you. May others follow your wacky musical steps.

If you didn’t catch the kazookeylele YouTube phenomenon when it hit, please do so now.