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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The Ridiculous Japa-Brazilian horn.
Post Subject: OK: Amplified by the wallsPosted by Paul S on: 3/6/2007
As I re-read my own posts I see where someone might still think I was merely suggesting that the ringing of the horn itself "produced" the ringing sounds I refer to. And in fact I have heard this. However I was referring also to the gratuitous bell-like sounds produced by horns shaped +/- like the bronze example, and I would also have to say that, other factors being equal, metal horns produce/sustain a much more aggressive iteration of this "self-generated" ringing than tar horns, in my experience. It MAY also be that metal horns sustain this ringing over a wider frequency range, or that wide range metal horns are more likely to re-produce this ringing at the octave point.
Anyway, I just looked at that thing again and I am sorry but I can still "hear" it ringing just by looking at it.
I remember once that I happened to be holding a tuning fork (guitar) as I listened to a concerto and being aware that both the horn (A7 500) and the fork were going off at 440 Hz. Aaaa... Nuts, right?
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Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site