Where did this sound effect originate?

[tb4000]

A lot of cartoons have used it over the years, but how did they make it, and who did it?

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/FX/ltfx_067.wav

[Uncle_Lina]

I think Treg Brown made that sound effect, I think it was first used in Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid (1942), where Bugs plays with Beaky Buzzard's neck.
I'm not sure though.

[David Gerstein]

I've got it as early as 1931 in some Bosko cartoons. But I've never heard it outside Warners/Schlesinger in the early years.

[Dudley]

I use to be able to make that sound when I shook my head.

[J. B. Warner]

I think Treg Brown made that sound effect, I think it was first used in Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid (1942), where Bugs plays with Beaky Buzzard's neck.
I'm not sure though.

You're way, way off. The name of the sound effect is the "trombone gobble", and it first appeared in the Warner Bros. library long before Treg Brown even joined the studio in 1936. It can be heard as part of the original Looney Tunes theme song from 1930 (heard here (http://bosko.toonzone.net/titles/looney1.ram), requires RealPlayer), and I believe it was utilized in a couple of Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising's pre-Warner Bros. cartoons too.

As for how it was made, I got this information directly from former Greg Ford/Terry Lennon animator Nancy Beiman. Someone would play a long, low note on the trombone, opening and closing the mute rapidly, so it sounded like "wa-wa-wa-wa-wa". The recording would then be sped up to four times its normal speed, producing the rapid-fire "yada-yada-yada-yada".

[Steve Carras]

I think Treg Brown made that sound effect, I think it was first used in Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid (1942), where Bugs plays with Beaky Buzzard's neck.
I'm not sure though.

Going by that reply, it's that "Iyiyiyiyiyiyi" trombone gobble sound FX.

As "J.B.Warner" above me said, it pre-dates Mr.Brown.

[Frank]

The person who created that trombone sound effect was Orlando "Slim" Martin who was a trombonist in the Abe Lyman Orchestra in the early 1930s. His trombone playing cam be heard on cartoons like Congo Jazz, Lady Play Your Mandolin, You Don't Know What You're Doing, and on several recordings of the Abe Lyman Orchestra in the early 1930s. Of course, the Abe Lyman Orchestra provide the soundtrack in the first couple Merrie Melodies.

[Eric B]

This is also what "humina-humina-humina" was supposed to be based on, right? I always said it sounded more like I-uhuhuh-yi-uhuhuh-yi-uhuhuh...