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00:46 Today we're going to study about...

00:49 Case of history.

00:50 Love and mystery.

00:51 Mathematics.

00:52 Acrobatics.

00:54 Reading, spelling.

00:55 Storytelling.

00:57 No, no, no.

00:59 The study of musical instruments is the subject for today.

01:04 The study of musical instruments is the subject for today.

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01:18 Did you ever stop to think when the band plays "Ring-a-ding" where all the music comes from?

01:24 From a toot and a whistle and a plunk and a boom.

01:27 That's where the music comes from.

01:30 Did you ever understand that a symphony so grand, so bright and yet sentimental.

01:36 That a toot and a whistle and a plunk and a boom are very instrumental.

01:42 For the horns go toot.

01:44 The woodwinds whistle.

01:45 The strings go plunk, plunk, toot.

01:48 And the drums boom, boom with a bing, zing, zoom.

01:51 And it comes out fine and true.

01:54 So remember what I say when the band begins to play just where the music comes from.

02:00 From a toot and a toot and a toot and a boom. That's where the music comes from.

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02:09 Now students, fly with me to the dawn of history.

02:13 We'll start investigating the toot and the whistle and the plunk and the boom.

02:19 It's very stimulating.

02:22 Oops.

02:24 Okay boys, you're on.

02:26 [chanting]

02:41 When a caveman blew through an old cow's horn, right then and there, the first toot was born.

02:48 [toot]

02:50 [toot]

02:52 Now let's look ahead in history and here we are in Egypt, 2000 B.C.

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03:00 And now on the banks of the river, now the toot has certainly changed its style.

03:06 And the kind of a note that the caveman blows is not good enough for the old pharaohs.

03:12 [toot]

03:13 [toot]

03:14 [toot]

03:15 [toot]

03:16 No, it's not good enough for the old pharaohs.

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03:37 Now, the longer they made these ancient trumpets, the lower they sounded.

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03:51 But one day, someone bumped into a very startling fact.

03:56 [crash]

03:59 [silence]

04:06 He had discovered that changing a trumpet's shape did not in the least change its pitch.

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04:15 The curved or curved brass horn had been invented.

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04:23 Ah, but this horn could produce only certain notes.

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04:31 To play a simple tune, you would have to use four horns of different lengths.

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04:46 Now, cut off these extra lengths, attach them to one horn,

04:52 add valves to control the passage of air through the extra lengths.

04:57 Now you can play your tune on just one horn.

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05:06 And this is a basic principle of our modern brass horns.

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05:19 Now, let's go back to our whistle.

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05:29 When this caveman blew on a tube of grass, the very first whistle came to pass.

05:35 [whistle]

05:38 In order to make his cave girl smile, he had to improve his whistle's style.

05:44 [whistle]

05:50 When he saw he was doing fine, he added more holes, about eight or nine.

05:55 [whistle]

06:02 By using his head instead of his feet, some genius found a way to beat this problem in a manner neat.

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06:28 When our third caveman plunked on the string of his bow, it was the first plunk as far as we know.

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06:58 And here there are two ways to go.

07:01 You can either plunk it, or play it with a bow.

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07:59 From our last caveman with his rhythmic slap have come all things that click or tap.

08:06 Came rattles,

08:10 bells,

08:13 and we presume, all other instruments that go boom.

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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)

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