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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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    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 open...
    40 KB (4,437 words) - 09:42, 29 April 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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    called "the man who invented the eighties". Horn took up the bass guitar at an early age and taught himself to sight-read music. In the 1970s, he worked...
    60 KB (5,712 words) - 10:25, 5 May 2024
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    relates to the perceived desirability to create a subdued sound in concert situations, in contrast to the more piercing quality of the trumpet. A horn without...
    46 KB (5,977 words) - 05:02, 12 May 2024
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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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    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...
    5 KB (631 words) - 18:05, 16 October 2023
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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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    horn is an air horn used as an audible warning device on diesel and electric-powered trains. Its primary purpose is to alert persons and animals to an...
    37 KB (3,506 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
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    like the higher pitched flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium. It uses a wide-rimmed...
    9 KB (1,012 words) - 16:37, 2 February 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 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
  • 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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    like the sound as much, he said he "was paid to get the notes" and the German horn was "virtually foolproof" in contrast to the French horn. His father...
    43 KB (6,067 words) - 00:00, 26 February 2024
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    Rhinoceros (redirect from Rhinoceros horn)
    from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose', and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant...
    78 KB (7,544 words) - 08:35, 28 April 2024
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    Mellophone (redirect from Koenig horn)
    French horns with a bell-front configuration; these do use a horn mouthpiece and have a more French horn-like sound, but are more difficult to play accurately...
    14 KB (1,808 words) - 00:54, 23 April 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
  • BRAAAM (category Sound effects)
    noise" or the "Inception horn". BRAAAM is a loud, low sound typically produced using real or synthesized brass instruments. One of the best-known examples...
    11 KB (1,228 words) - 03:47, 6 December 2023
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