Quirky Old Sesame Street Video Shows How Saxophone Is Made
Before “How It Works” there were a Sesame Street video of a factory tour: apeanut butter factory re– recorded with wheatgrass, apostal factory for printing dog stamps, achewing gum factory narrated by excitable children, 70-e-Asscheese artisans , frantichamburger buns factory . The scent of Crayola still makes me think of the snapping soundtrack of a marimba from a crayonfactory . Each video helps you understand the basic process behind the product being manufactured, but also helps you evaluate the workers who are involved in this process and how skilled their work can be. And the soundtracks and narration leave a specific, intuitive impression that cannot be conveyed alone.
This saxophone factory video above (via Digg ) shows saxophones being built from sheets of brass and molded with hammers, metal presses, and lathes. The result is an amazing combination of creativity and factory precision. But the highlight of this video is the goofy soundtrack: a lonely jazz saxophone creating cartoonish sound effects at every step of the process.
The saxophone soundtrack simulates hammering, turning a lathe and swaying metal with Looney-Tunes-like beeps and beeps. Growing up, a few editors thought that the machine actually emit these sounds. The effect is as fun asbad lip reading ,music videos with no music, orthis awesome Jurassic Park cover . And yes, saxophone noises are a bit like farting. Don’t tell the kids.