Originally published at: Watch these fascinating demonstrations of sound effect instruments from the silent film era! - Boing Boing
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The train box was amazing. I wish I knew how it worked.
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I saw another video where Bill is demonstrating it (actually, it was in the drum set documentary I linked to at the end of the article) and the instrument that you move is some kind of serrated knife, and it makes the noise by dragging across metal, I think.
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It’s explained in there that it’s a file pulled across some springs. Pretty cool!
Here’s the spot in the video:
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