[Trombone-l] Air Horn Symphony

[emrose79]

Along the same lines.... My wife and I were on a Disney cruise, The 
Magic, a few years ago. When we left one of the ports, The Magic 
"saluted" the other ships, and they responded in kind. At the NCL ship, 
we further gave them a special salute with the smaller horns along the 
stack, which played "When You Wish Upon A Star".... NCL tried to 
respond, but couldn't.....
oh, and Earl... we had one of your "friends" come into our place with a 
train horn! only blew it for onlookers..... our "baby freights" 
(FL112s!) are lucky to have any horns at all!
Ed




Earl Needham wrote:

>At 08:12 AM 3/27/2006, Bill Dinwiddie wrote:
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>>Hey Earl,
>>
>>I heard an NPR feature, where they interviewed a guy who had actually gotten
>>together 12 trucks, and arranged a piece for the air horns which was to be
>>performed at the Super Bowl, I think. I can't remember what piece it
>>was....not the National Anthem, but they played it and it sounded...pretty
>>awful. But he should get an E for Effort, and a C for Creativity.
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>         Hahaha!  I think I heard something about that, and if it sounded 
>just awful, then he probably didn't have them tuned right.  I've been 
>reading about air horns a bit, and I find that you can tune them to just 
>about any note you like.  In fact, train horns are spec'd to particular 
>chords, and some railroads want major, some want minor, some seem to prefer 
>"tone clusters" that just make LOUD NOISE, etc.
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>>He never got to play it at the Super Bowl...security concerns or some such
>>nonsense. I think he should do it next year.
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>         Yeah, let's hope so.  Such effort needs to be exposed -- er, uh -- 
>I mean, rewarded!  <G>
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>         Hey, didja' ever hear the barking dog's rendition of Jingle Bells?
>         Earl
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>Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
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