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  • Thumbnail for Vehicle horn
    Car horn The sound of a typical car horn Problems playing this file? See media help. A vehicle horn is a sound-making device installed on motor vehicles...
    15 KB (1,752 words) - 00:39, 30 April 2024
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    horn through a reed or diaphragm. The stream of air causes the reed or diaphragm to vibrate, creating sound waves, then the horn amplifies the sound making...
    14 KB (1,728 words) - 03:02, 18 February 2024
  • An acoustic horn or waveguide is a tapered sound guide designed to provide an acoustic impedance match between a sound source and free air. This has the...
    6 KB (871 words) - 15:16, 8 April 2022
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    Trevor Charles Horn CBE (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician. His influence on pop and electronic music in the 1980s was such...
    60 KB (5,712 words) - 10:25, 5 May 2024
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    narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges. In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore...
    53 KB (7,632 words) - 13:27, 20 January 2024
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    subdued sound in concert situations, in contrast to the more piercing quality of the trumpet. A horn without valves is known as a natural horn, changing...
    46 KB (5,977 words) - 05:02, 12 May 2024
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    The blowing horn or winding horn is a sound device that is usually made of or shaped like an animal horn, arranged to blow from a hole in the pointed end...
    5 KB (631 words) - 18:05, 16 October 2023
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    Megaphone (redirect from Bull horn)
    hand-held, cone-shaped acoustic horn used to amplify a person's voice or other sounds and direct it in a given direction. The sound is introduced into the narrow...
    16 KB (1,718 words) - 23:53, 4 December 2023
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    which produces sound waves with a small metal diaphragm vibrated by an electromagnet, attached to a horn, a flaring duct to conduct the sound waves to the...
    40 KB (4,437 words) - 09:42, 29 April 2024
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    Gjallarhorn (redirect from Giallar horn)
    "hollering horn" or "the loud sounding horn") is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. The sound of Heimdallr's horn will herald...
    6 KB (703 words) - 19:02, 25 February 2024
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    baritone sounds with a timbre between the brightness of the trombone and the more mellow tone of the euphonium. Although both baritone horn and euphonium...
    9 KB (1,012 words) - 16:37, 2 February 2024
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    instructed not to sound their horns, except in case of emergency. Recent years have seen an increase of horn theft from railroad property. Train horns are operated...
    37 KB (3,506 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
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    Rhinoceros (redirect from Rhinoceros horn)
    ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose', and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member...
    78 KB (7,544 words) - 08:35, 28 April 2024
  • these sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an...
    6 KB (566 words) - 01:50, 7 February 2024
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    The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E♭ horn) is a brass instrument in the...
    13 KB (1,542 words) - 22:25, 21 April 2024
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    The sound of a party horn A party horn unfurling Problems playing this file? See media help. A party horn (also known as a party blower or noisemaker)...
    2 KB (197 words) - 01:02, 22 February 2024
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    Unicorn (redirect from Horse with a horn)
    aptly in falling, that it receives all the shock upon the horn, and so escapes safe and sound". Medieval knowledge of unicorns stemmed from biblical and...
    41 KB (4,687 words) - 23:43, 29 April 2024
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    Raoux single horn until finally abandoning it for a four-valved B♭/A Alexander model 90 in October 1951. Though he did not like the sound as much, he said...
    43 KB (6,067 words) - 00:00, 26 February 2024
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    Mellophone (redirect from Koenig horn)
    the sound becomes a concern in the open-air environment of marching. Tuning is done solely by adjusting the tuning slide, unlike the French horn where...
    14 KB (1,808 words) - 00:54, 23 April 2024
  • The Sound of His Horn is a 1952 dystopian time travel/alternative history novel by the senior British diplomat John William Wall, written under the pseudonym...
    5 KB (586 words) - 06:45, 28 October 2023
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