From: c5mjb@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 24, 1993 at 10:56:37 AM UTC-4, Don T. Borowski wrote:   
   > John R Laplante (jlap...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:   
   > :   
   > : Big cars have horns that make 'big sounds.' Loud. Full.   
   > : Small cars have horns that make 'small sounds.' "tinny." "beep beep".   
   > :   
   > : I thought of this yesterday when I was driving my big old buick,   
   > : and had a need for the horn. I thought "i'm glad i'm driving this   
   > : car, rather than my Camry." The camry is not a small car, but   
   > : it still has a small car "beep beep" sound...   
   > :   
   > : So.. the question is: what are the determinants of the sound of   
   > : cars? Why do the horns on small cars sound as they are?   
   > : Is it because the engine compartment is smaller? Is the horn   
   > : smaller? Not powered as much? Do new big cars still have   
   > : that sounds that you get from the big old cars?   
   > It is because someone has designed it that way.   
   > To same money (and a bit of weight), a lot of small cars come with just   
   > a single horn. A lot of the old Detroit iron had two horns tuned to   
   > different notes. This is probably the biggest difference in the sound.   
   > The solution is easy. Just go down to the local junk yard, and get   
   > the horns off some old Detroit iron. Wire them up, and get that   
   > good old satisfying sound.   
   >   
   > Donald Borowski WA6OMI Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division   
   > "Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."   
   > -G.K. Chesterton   
      
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