The Cat in the Hat
The Things Help Bong Some Gongs
Clip: Season 3 Episode 10 | 2m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
Thing 1 and Thing 2 help find the note Sally wants.
Size makes the difference in musical instruments! Larger ones tend to produce lower pitch sounds.
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The Cat in the Hat
The Things Help Bong Some Gongs
Clip: Season 3 Episode 10 | 2m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
Size makes the difference in musical instruments! Larger ones tend to produce lower pitch sounds.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Whenyou're looking for sounds be they gongs, chimes or dings, you can get some sound help from a couple of Things!
(Whistling) (Things chattering) BOTH: Hello!
Hi, Things.
We're looking for the right sound to finish my song.
(Playing melody) SALLY ON RECORDING: ♪ La ♪ So, you hear the problem.
Care to take a whack at it?
BOTH: Uh-huh!
(Banging gong) No.
Nope, it's higher than the note I need.
(Banging gong) (Sighing) It's too high, too.
Huh?
Oh!
Wait a second.
Do you mind bonging the gongs again?
And Sally, you listen hard, okay?
(Banging gongs) Both gongs are too high, right, Sally?
Yes, but they're different.
Thing 1's gong sounds really high, and Thing 2's gong sounds even higher!
Right!
So, what makes them different from each other?
Hmm, huh.
They're the exact same shape...
But they aren't the same size!
The higher-sounding gong is smaller.
Look!
That's about the size of it.
So, maybe size makes the difference.
We better try bigger gongs.
(Things chattering) Well, these are all bigger gongs.
All right, Things, do your thing!
(Grunting) (Playing low note) Hmm, too low.
Ugh!
(Playing low note) (Giggling) That one's really too low.
And look!
The really lower-sounding gong is bigger than the higher-sounding gong.
Hmm, well, what do you know?
It is bigger!
We seem to have a pattern here.
Big gongs... (Playing low note) ..low sounds.
Little gongs... (Playing high note) ..high sounds.
So, the bigger the gong, the lower the sound it makes!
And the smaller the gong, the higher the sound it makes!
So, if the small gongs are too high
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