Elmo, Abby and Tamir come across a wooden cricket and learn that it's Dave's favorite Cuban musical instrument called a guiro.
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00:00Oh, oh, hi! Welcome to Sesame Street! Oh, you know, you're just in time, because the
00:10Best Friends Band is gonna play today! And we have two new friends joining us! We're
00:15gonna start right away!
00:17Elmo!
00:18Elmo!
00:19Oh, Elmina, hi!
00:21I rushed over to tell you, we can't play yet.
00:23Huh? But, uh, Elmo just, Elmo just told everybody that the music was gonna start right away.
00:29Hi.
00:30Oh, hi.
00:31Hi.
00:32My brother Dave lost his musical instrument. It's his favorite one, because it comes from
00:37Cuba, where our family's from. I have to help him find it.
00:40Oh, well, okay. Elmo will tell the rest of the band.
00:43Okay. All right. I gotta go that way.
00:46Okay! Elmo will look for it, too!
00:50Huh. Lost musical instrument, huh?
00:53Now, if Elmo were a lost musical instrument, where would Elmo be?
01:00Oh, wait a minute. What's this?
01:05Whoa. What is this?
01:08Huh. This is nerdy Elmo. Elmo's never seen anything like this before.
01:13Hmm. What are you?
01:16Hi, Abby.
01:17Hi, Elmo!
01:18Hi, Abby.
01:19Well, I'm ready to make music. Let's go!
01:22Oh, Abby, Abby, we can't.
01:24See, Nina says they can't play with us until her brother Dave finds his lost instrument,
01:29and it's really important to him, so Elmo's helping her look for it.
01:32Oh, well, I'll help, too!
01:34Okay, what instrument did he lose? Was it a guitar, a piano, a...
01:40How could someone lose a piano? It's so big!
01:45Oh, Elmo. Do you think Dave's the type of person that could lose a whole piano?
01:51Um, no, Abby. Elmo thinks it's probably smaller than a piano.
01:58Let Elmo think. Um...
02:01Uh, Elmo?
02:02Huh?
02:03Elmo, what is that? I've never seen anything like that before!
02:06Yeah, Elmo neither. It was just laying over here.
02:09Oh, well, it sure is new to me.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Look at that. It's made of wood.
02:14Uh-huh.
02:15Ah! And it looks like a big bug!
02:17Yeah, look!
02:18Yay! It does look like a big bug!
02:21Well, you don't find a big wooden bug just every day.
02:25Sure don't.
02:26But what is it for?
02:28Oh, Elmo, I think I know what that is!
02:32Really?
02:33Yeah!
02:34What is it?
02:36Elmo, let me see that.
02:38Here you go.
02:39Okay, listen. As a fairy who spends lots of time in the garden,
02:43I think that this is a garden decoration.
02:46Somebody must have lost it. See? Like the gnomes.
02:49Ah, yeah, maybe.
02:51I mean, what else could it be?
02:52Hey!
02:53Huh?
02:54Whoa, whoa. Nice statue.
02:56Uh, who are you?
02:58Oh, uh, I'm a cricket. I live here in your garden.
03:01My name's Buddy.
03:02Oh.
03:03Hi, Buddy.
03:04Hiya! Hey, I really like your wooden cricket.
03:07It looks just like me.
03:09It's got big legs for hopping.
03:11And look at that, it even has wings for making chirping sounds.
03:15Like this.
03:16Oh.
03:17Yeah, that's a really nice sound.
03:20Thank you.
03:21Only this one won't make that sound because it's made out of wood.
03:25Yeah, you're right.
03:26So what's a wooden cricket for?
03:28We're not sure.
03:30Yeah, we want to find out more about it.
03:32I heard someone say they wanted to find out more about something.
03:35What do you want to find out more about?
03:37Hi, Tamir.
03:38Hi, Tamir.
03:39Oh, sorry, this is Buddy.
03:41Oh, hi.
03:42Honey.
03:43Um, we're trying to figure out what this wooden cricket is for.
03:47Oh.
03:48I've never seen anything like this before.
03:51It's new to me.
03:53But if I had a wooden cricket like this, I would know exactly what to do with it.
03:58What?
04:00Make it the star of my next movie.
04:03Whoosh, whoosh.
04:04Here comes Captain Cricket from Planet Chirp.
04:08Ooh.
04:09I would go see that movie right now.
04:13Right now.
04:14We're supposed to play music with Nina and Dave right now.
04:17Right.
04:18But Nina said that the band can't play until we find Dave's lost instrument.
04:23Yeah, we're helping to find it.
04:25Well, I can help.
04:26What kind of instrument did he lose?
04:28Well, you know what it is.
04:29It's a...
04:30We don't know.
04:31Oh, okay.
04:32Well, we should ask them.
04:34If we know what kind of instrument is lost, that'll make it a lot easier to find.
04:38Ooh, he is smart.
04:40He's a...
04:41Whoa.
04:42Yeah, well, Tamir's right.
04:44We should go ask him what kind of instrument they lost.
04:46Yeah.
04:47Bye, Buddy.
04:48Bye, Buddy.
04:49So long, so long.
04:50Good luck.
04:53I'll help if we know what we're looking for.
04:55Yeah, right.
04:56Oh, did Nina and Dave find the missing instrument yet?
04:59Not yet, Elmo. TodavÃa.
05:00I really need to find it.
05:02It's my favorite.
05:03My uncle gave it to me when I was just a little kid in Cuba.
05:06What kind of instrument is it?
05:08Well, it's a guiro.
05:10You found it!
05:12We found it!
05:13We found it!
05:14Yay!
05:15Oh, what did we find?
05:17That.
05:18My musical instrument.
05:20This wooden cricket is a musical instrument?
05:23Mm-hmm.
05:24Is it a new kind of instrument?
05:26Here you go.
05:27Thanks.
05:28Mm-hmm.
05:29Well, Elmo, it's new to you if you've never seen one before.
05:31Yeah.
05:32It's called a guiro.
05:33Lots of people all over the world play guiros.
05:36Fascinating.
05:38It is fascinating.
05:40When you find something new, you can learn all about it.
05:43Come check it out.
05:44Yeah, for sure.
05:45Okay.
05:46Yeah.
05:48Look, we have some here.
05:50So here is a guiro made out of a gourd.
05:52Yeah.
05:53And one made out of metal.
05:54Okay.
05:55And some made out of wood.
05:56Oh, I like that turtle.
05:58Oh, it does look like a turtle.
06:00And look, it even has a place to hold the stick.
06:02Cool.
06:03Cool.
06:04Nina and I are from Cuba where lots of people play the guiro.
06:07This guiro is special to me because this is the one my uncle taught me how to play on.
06:12Oh.
06:13Well, Elmo wants to know how Dave makes music with the guiro.
06:17Guiro.
06:18Guiro.
06:19Right, Elmo.
06:20Well, a guiro is a percussion instrument.
06:22A percussion instrument is something that you hit, shake, or scrape to make music.
06:27Oh, like my drums.
06:31Or my tambourine.
06:33Yeah, that's right.
06:34You play a guiro by scraping a stick over the ridges.
06:37Like this.
06:39Or like this.
06:43Or by tapping it with a stick.
06:48Listen, what does this sound like?
06:53It sort of sounds like a cricket.
06:55Yeah.
06:56All right, everybody grab one.
06:58Okay.
06:59Here, I got it.
07:07Okay, best friends band, it's time to play.
07:11Let's go.
07:12Let's go.
07:13Count us in, Camille.
07:14You got it.
07:15One, two, three, four.
07:18Somebody come and play.
07:20Hey, everybody.
07:21Somebody come and play today.
07:24Somebody come and smile a smile and sing those songs.
07:29It won't take long.
07:31Somebody come and play today.
07:36Yeah.
07:37That was great.
07:39Celebrating me, celebrating you, celebrating us.
07:45George and Isabelle are playing guiros.
07:49You're making great music.
07:52Thanks.
07:53Let's see how many different sounds we can make with guiros.
08:01Tap with a stick.
08:03That's one.
08:07Scrape with a stick.
08:08That's two.
08:09Is that all?
08:11Scrape with a stick.
08:12That's two.
08:13Is that all?
08:14Let's see if it can make a different sound.
08:17I use this.
08:22Yeah, that's another sound.
08:24We found three different sounds we can make.
08:28Yeah.
08:29Great work, rhythm makers.
08:32Hey, you can try making sounds at home, too.
08:37Elmo knows that music.
08:39It's time for the letter of the day.
08:41Come on.
08:43Jump up, get down.
08:45Come dance with Elmo.
08:47We're moving our bodies to the ABCs.
08:49Dance nearby.
08:53Dance far away.
08:54Now clap your hands to the letter of the day.
08:57Clap, clap.
08:58What's the letter?
08:59Clap, clap.
09:00What's the letter?
09:01Clap, clap, clap, clap.
09:02What's the letter?
09:03What's the letter?
09:04What's the letter?
09:05What's the letter?
09:06What's the letter?
09:07The letter of the day is.
09:11Clap, clap.
09:12It's the letter of the day.
09:13Clap, clap.
09:14It's the letter of the day.
09:16Clap, clap.
09:17It's the letter.
09:18It's the letter.
09:19It's the letter of the day.
09:21It's the letter of the day.
09:23Clap, clap.
09:24It's the letter of the day.
09:25Clap, clap.
09:26Hey, hey.
09:31Yay.
09:32I is for instruments.
09:35The letter I.
09:36I is for instruments.
09:38Today, me and my mom are going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
09:42It's one of my favorite places to visit.
09:44Luca, are you excited to see the musical instruments gallery today?
09:47Yes.
09:48I even brought my own violin.
09:50This is Jason.
09:51He works at the museum as a curator.
09:54Curators make all kinds of decisions about what we see in the museum.
09:58Jason knows all about the instruments.
10:00Well, hello, Luca.
10:01Hello, Mariella.
10:02Hi, Jason.
10:03Are you ready to look at some instruments today?
10:04Yeah, let's do it.
10:06Wow, these look so interesting.
10:08Yeah, really cool drums.
10:10One of the great things about them is they come from all over the world.
10:13Here's a drum that comes from West Africa.
10:16It's called a djembe drum.
10:17And I play it by using my hands.
10:22Are you ready to see some other instruments?
10:24And now we're standing in the string section of the galleries.
10:27These are very special string instruments because you use a bow to play them.
10:31Just like how you play my violin.
10:33That's exactly right.
10:34Just like your violin.
10:35And then there are members called violas.
10:37There are cellos.
10:38And now there's one more instrument I want to show you before you leave.
10:41This is the oldest piano in the world.
10:43It's more than 300 years old, and it still plays.
10:48Hey, I know that song.
10:49It's one of my favorites.
10:51Do you want to join me?
10:52I'd love to.
10:55I is for Instrument.
10:57The letter I.
11:03Thank you, thank you, and welcome to Sesame Street's Favorite Game.
11:07Hey, who's a drum?
11:09Oh, me ready to play.
11:11Is there a prize?
11:13No.
11:14Oh.
11:15Number one, let's hear your sound.
11:18Oh, okay, okay.
11:20Um, yeah, me think that's a drum.
11:23Correct, Cookie Monster.
11:24It's a bongo drum.
11:28Thank you.
11:29Number two, let's hear your sound.
11:34Hmm.
11:35Yeah, yeah, okay.
11:37Uh, me think that's a drum.
11:40Correct, Cookie Monster.
11:42It's a bongo drum.
11:44Thank you.
11:45Number three, let's hear your sound.
11:48Me heard that in a parade.
11:50Um, me think that's a drum.
11:52Correct, Cookie Monster.
11:53It's a bass drum.
11:57Thank you.
11:58What kind of game show no have a prize?
12:00Number three, make your sound.
12:06Hmm.
12:07Oh, boy.
12:08That's a toughie.
12:09Uh, can me hear it again?
12:12Ba-boom-tsh.
12:13Ba-boom-tsh.
12:15Uh, well, you know, that sound like a drum,
12:17but, uh, me no think that's a drum.
12:21Right again, Cookie Monster.
12:23Number three, who are you?
12:26I'm Margo, and I'm a pickle.
12:29I work down at the diner on 90th Street.
12:32Come on down.
12:33Ask for Margo.
12:35Good try, Margo.
12:36Almost fooled me.
12:39And that music's not coming from drums or a pickle.
12:42It's time for another Monster Foodies.
12:45Ha-ha-ha.
12:46Wonderful, wonderful.
12:47You sure there no prize?
12:48Huh?
12:51Yoo-hoo.
12:53Do you like food?
12:54I do-ba-doop-doop-do-ba.
12:55Like me like food?
12:56I do-ba-dee-ba-dee-ba-dee-ba.
12:58Longer make food?
12:59I'll make food.
13:00Place your order if you lucky.
13:02We make food in our foodie truck.
13:05Yeah.
13:08Hold the alarm.
13:09We got it.
13:10I got it.
13:11I got it.
13:12Hi, Cookie Monster and Gonger.
13:13I'm Zoe, and I'm a musician.
13:15After I finish playing my ukulele, I like to eat a healthy snack.
13:19Can you make some banana chips, please?
13:21Of course we can help you, because we are Monster Foodies.
13:28Now, banana chips are good for musicians because banana chips go with music.
13:35Okay.
13:36So what we need...
13:37Wait a minute.
13:38How bananas go with music?
13:40Ba-ma-ma-ma-ma.
13:41Ba-ma-ma-ma-ma.
13:42Ba-ma-ma-ma-ma.
13:43Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma.
13:44Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma.
13:45Yeah, you're right.
13:46Me see that.
13:47Thank you.
13:48Okay.
13:49So what we need to make banana chips, Chef Gonger?
13:53To make delicious ba-na-na-na-na-na chips, we need ba-na-na-na-nas, salt, and cinnamon.
14:03Okay.
14:04Me got salt here, and here the cinnamon.
14:10Oh, it smells good.
14:12And the last ingredient, two ba-na-na-na-na-nas.
14:21Cookie Monster, you ate the ba-na-na-na-na-nas.
14:26What?
14:27Me?
14:28Me?
14:29Me?
14:30Yeah, me ate the bananas.
14:31Oh, I suppose we'll get more ba-na-na-na-nas from the farm.
14:36Okay.
14:37Come on, let's go.
14:38Let's go.
14:39Wow.
14:40Oh, banana peel on the floor.
14:43Clean it up later.
14:50To the ba-na-na-na-na-na-na farm.
14:53Banana farm.
14:54Banana farm.
14:55Go to the ba-na-na-na-na-na farm.
14:59Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
15:01Here we are at the ba-na-na farm.
15:04Hello, Mrs. Banana Farmer.
15:06We need ba-na-nas to make ba-na-na chips.
15:08Can you help us, please?
15:09Hello, Cookie Monster and Gonger.
15:12We have lots of ba-na-nas because ba-na-nas grow all year round.
15:17Ba-na-nas are fruits that grow on the ba-na-na plant.
15:20This is the flower of the ba-na-na plant.
15:24We cover the ba-na-nas to protect them from insects, animals and birds while they continue to grow.
15:30These ba-na-nas are big enough to harvest.
15:34Harvest means to pick the ones that are ready.
15:38We harvest them when they're green.
15:40Then they're packed so that they don't get bruised.
15:44Then they're washed and split into bunches.
15:47And while they're on their way to grocery stores and farm stands, they start to turn yellow.
15:54Here you go. Fresh ripe ba-na-nas for your ba-na-na chips.
15:58Thank you, Ba-na-na Farmer.
15:59Thank you.
16:00Ba-na-nas, ba-na-nas, we're going home with ba-na-nas.
16:06Okay, Chef Gonger, how we make ba-na-na chips?
16:09Oh, well, let's check the recipe.
16:13First, peel and slice two ba-na-nas.
16:17One ba-na-na, two ba-na-nas. Okay, you slice.
16:22Two ba-na-nas.
16:26Now add a pinch of salt.
16:31And a sprinkle of cinnamon.
16:35Oh, yeah.
16:36Okay, and now me put it in the oven.
16:39Into the oven.
16:43And the second ba-na-na-na-na was too ripe.
16:49But the third ba-na-na-na-na was just right.
16:54Yeah.
16:55Ba-na-na-na-na.
16:56Ba-na-na-na-na.
16:57Ba-na-na-na-na.
16:58Ba-na-na-na-na.
16:59Ba-na-na-na-na.
17:00Ba-na-na-na-na.
17:03It's ready.
17:05Order up.
17:08Bye-bye, ba-na-na-na-na.
17:10Toodaloo, ba-na-na-chips.
17:12Oh, Cookie Monster.
17:14Yes, Gonger?
17:15I've got this nice for you.
17:18Yeah, the little ba-na-na-chips.
17:25Healthy ba-na-na-chips make being a musician even more fun.
17:31Thank you for the ba-na-na-chips, Cookie Monster and Gonger.
17:34Oh, you're welcome, Zoe.
17:37Yeah.
17:39Yay.
17:40Happy, happy monsters to the rescue.
17:42We make yummy food just for you.
17:50Do you know what time it is?
17:52It's time for the number of the day.
17:54Hop like an astronaut.
17:56Hop, hop.
17:57Hop like an astronaut.
17:59Hop, hop.
18:00Slide like a shooting star.
18:02Ah-ah, ah-ah.
18:06Yeah.
18:07And hop, slide.
18:09Hop, slide.
18:11Hoppy, hoppy.
18:12Slide, slide, slide, slide, slide.
18:15It is time for the number of the day.
18:19Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, slide.
18:21Count the martians with us.
18:23Ready?
18:25One.
18:26Yep.
18:27Two.
18:28Yep.
18:31The number two.
18:33Here we are with two guitars.
18:35One, two.
18:37We like to play and sing all day.
18:39That's just what we do.
18:41Our two guitars, don't they sound nice?
18:43One, two.
18:45Now, don't they make a lovely sight?
18:47One, two.
18:49The number two.
18:57La, la, la, la.
18:58La, la, la, la.
19:00La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
19:02Elmo's full of wonder, wonder what we will discover
19:05in Elmo's Wonderful World.
19:08Ha, ha, ha, ha.
19:10Hi.
19:11Welcome to Elmo's World.
19:13Oh, guess what Elmo is wondering about today.
19:18Wait for it.
19:20Wait for it.
19:23Yeah.
19:25Instruments.
19:27Ha, ha, ha, ha.
19:29Ha, ha, ha.
19:31What?
19:33Ha, ha, ha.
19:34Boy, Elmo loves instruments and wants to find out more about them.
19:39Ha, ha.
19:40Let's ask Elmo's friend, Smarty.
19:43Let's call her together.
19:45Oh, Smarty.
19:48Oh.
19:49Oh, ha, ha.
19:52Smarty, Smarty, what is Smarty doing?
19:55Just marching to my own beat.
19:57You know why?
19:58Because I'm so excited about musical instruments.
20:02Oh, ha, ha.
20:03Well, that's perfect, Smarty,
20:05because Elmo wants to learn all about instruments.
20:09Well, what do we do to learn something new?
20:12We look it up.
20:15Searching for instruments now.
20:18Neat.
20:19An instrument is anything you use to make music.
20:22Some instruments you play with your hands, like piano.
20:25And some instruments you play with your hands and your mouth, like a flute.
20:30Sometimes you play musical instruments with a special tool.
20:34You need a bow to play a cello.
20:37There are different kinds of instruments from all over the world.
20:40Taiko drums from Japan.
20:42The didgeridoo from Australia.
20:44And if you practice a lot, you can learn to make really cool music with instruments.
20:49Wow, cool.
20:51Thanks for looking it up, Elmo's Smarty.
20:54I love leaving on a high note.
20:57Bye-bye.
21:01Bye.
21:02Thank you, Smarty.
21:04Boy, hearing all those instruments gives Elmo an idea.
21:10Let's play a game together.
21:13Yeah.
21:14Come on, come on.
21:15Yeah.
21:22Elmo wonders if we can match the musical instruments to the sounds they make.
21:28Are you ready?
21:30Let's play.
21:31Let's listen to the first instrument.
21:34Is this the right instrument?
21:37No, that's a drum.
21:40Hmm.
21:41Is that sound a piano?
21:44That's it.
21:45It's a piano.
21:46You play the keys of a piano to make music.
21:49Let's play again.
21:51Does this instrument make that sound?
21:54No, that's a trumpet.
21:57How about this?
21:59Yes, you play drums with drumsticks.
22:02Cool beat.
22:04Now let's listen again.
22:06Was that a trumpet?
22:09Let's find out.
22:10Yes, you blow into a trumpet.
22:13That makes music.
22:15Boy, Elmo loves all the different sounds that musical instruments can make.
22:21Hey, that makes Elmo wonder even more.
22:25Elmo wonders if Mr. Noodle knows how to play a musical instrument.
22:30Let's ask him, okay?
22:32Hey, Mr. Noodle.
22:35Hi, Mr. Noodle.
22:39Mr. Noodle, do you play an instrument?
22:43You do?
22:44Really?
22:45Can you show us how to play an instrument, please?
22:48Yeah, play us a song.
22:51Oh, boy.
22:52Wait a minute.
22:54No, that's not an instrument.
22:57No?
22:58Try again, Mr. Noodle.
23:00Where's he going?
23:01Whoa!
23:02Oh, he's doing it.
23:04He's playing a musical instrument.
23:07That's a lot of instruments, Mr. Noodle.
23:10You did it, Mr. Noodle.
23:13Elmo thinks you must have practiced really hard.
23:17Oh, yeah.
23:19Great job, Mr. Noodle.
23:21Bye-bye.
23:22Boy, learning new things makes Elmo so happy.
23:27It makes him want to dance.
23:29Come on.
23:30Happy, happy, dance, dance.
23:32Happy, happy, dance, dance.
23:34When we learn something new, we do the happy dance, dance.
23:38Let's see your happy dance.
23:40Yeah, cool.
23:42See you next time.
23:43Keep learning.
23:44Elmo loves you.
23:46Happy, happy, dance, dance.
23:48Happy, happy, dance, dance.
23:50When we learn something new, we do the happy dance, dance.
23:55Yay!
23:58We hope you had fun seeing and learning
24:00about musical instruments with us.
24:02Yeah.
24:03At first, we didn't know that wooden cricket
24:05was a musical instrument.
24:07But it is, and it's called a guiro.
24:10Isn't that amazing?
24:11Yeah.
24:15Come back for more surprises and lots of fun
24:18next time on Sesame Street.