The antennae of the Kricketot do not just produce that beloved chirp so characteristic of Sinnoh autumn nights; they also produced the first works of instrumental music composed by man. At first, noting their musical properties in live Kricketot, aspiring musicians sought to harvest antennae from the dead. Yet while today these antennae are prized in string instruments and xylophones alike, in that era, without the precise tools of modern harvesting, the antennae were inevitably damaged beyond repair in the process.

Instead, people used live Kricketot to perform their music, training them from birth to play with their antennae not their own songs, but songs created by humans, typically the musical backing for epic tales which have come down to our era only as poems. Although the songs themselves are in virtually all instances lost, descriptions of how they were performed have made it into the historical record. They bore a superficial resemblance to modern orchestras, but a far greater one to Kricketot swarms; the instructor himself would be dressed as a giant Kricketot and conduct with his own antennae, which he controlled through pulleys from his arm, and the Kricketot would follow along, each instructed to perform slightly different songs to the same motions to create the much louder composite whole.

Today, only a few historical and theatrical enthusiasts still use the Kricketot orchestra, yet although these pokemon are now trained only for evolution, their musical legacy remains with us. The modern notation for music, so bizarre to our modern understanding, were developed for the ease of teaching Kricketot; they had become too culturally ingrained to abandon when instruments built for humans became more popular and effective. Even the outfits and motions of orchestral conductors are based on those once used by Kricketot trainers!