Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

APPROPIATE

1953 / 10min.

Rating6.66

Genres

Animation

Synopsis

In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney's traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.

Directors

Actors

Thurl Ravenscroft

Bill Thompson

Gloria Wood

Loulie Jean Norman

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