Watch these fascinating demonstrations of sound effect instruments from the silent film era!

Check out these two videos that demonstrate a variety of very cool traps, or sound effect instruments, that percussionists used in the silent film era to bring realistic sounds to the action on the screen. Theaters hired percussionists to sit behind movie screens and create sounds approximating train whistles, trains, police sirens, horses clomping down the road, and more. — Read the rest
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