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|    Ken Olson to Wade Garrett    |
|    Re: Why do horns in small cars sound so     |
|    23 Oct 20 23:35:04    |
      From: kolson@freedomnet.org              On 10/23/2020 6:15 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:       > On 10/23/20 4:34 PM, butler mike wrote:       >> 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       >       > Many people who drive weenie cars do so to virtue signal they are green.       > And the little horn sound fits right in...being polite and not adding to       > noise pollution ;-)       >              L like FIAMM or similar if the stock one isn't sufficient.              --       ÄLSKAR - Fänga Dagen              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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