The extraction of voice from bodily forms serves as Steamboat Willie's persistent theme. After a goat gobbles down Minnie's ukulele, the animal becomes a music box, bleating out the tinny minstrel standard Turkey in the Straw. Mickey not only slaps a drum kit of saucepans, he also bullroarers a yowling cat, bagpipes a living duck, and approximates the legendary cat piano by plucking the tails of suckling piglets.

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