For Piers and Toby and Match 2...

[benjenbav]

Yesterday evening whilst on a late session working on a project in the office we discovered this gem:

It belongs to one of my colleagues and is a genuine trail-hunting horn, useful for summoning the hounds and followers to the location of an aniseed trail etc.

It's a rather beautiful thing made of copper and nickel and makes a very, very loud noise.

I think there might be an opportunity to combine this traditional design with the Kahlenberg range and offer something just a bit different to the punters.

Anyway, lads. Fill your boots. My intellectual property in the idea is freely assigned to you.

Except that I might just call in at your stand for a cup of coffee if I get to the show. Tomorrow, once impossible, is now looking more likely than Sunday for me.

 

[taz]

C'mon lads, we're gonna miss the boat.

 

[jfm]

Very nice BJB.

It reminds me, and I have a pic somewhere, of summer 2008 I think when TCM had his catamaran anchored off the beach at Cannes for the Bastille day fireworks show. I rafted up alongside him in Sq58, with Mr+Mrs Magnum on board, and another boat rafted, and so we had a 20 peeps or something party on the cat. At the end of the show all the boats sound horns to thank the firework guys.

The big superyachts have their intestine rippling Kahlenbergs of course, but tcm didn't want to be outdone. So he got a mouth horn just like yours (well, a bit more modern/cheapie than yours) and a full scuba cylinder. He held the horn onto the valve and opened it. The noise was deafening! It kept up with the Kahlenbergs! Bludy hilarious stunt!

See you tomorrow then BJB I hope. Toby/Piers, do you have a stand there or are you just walking the floors or what?

 

[Groot T]

Yeish! Quite the looker! Does look very special indeed. I will put it to Erick (Mr Kahlenberg) to see what he thinks, thank you for the idea.

Out of curiositry, what kind of work were you doing for you 'working late' and managed to discover this beauty?

Toby

P.S. We're not exhibiting at London boat show. We had budgeted to do one of the two and given the lack of great news about the London Boat Show, Southampton was our show of choice.

P.P.S. Was very tempted to make my post rife with puns. e.g. "Don't want to hound you about this" or "Visit our stand on K-9"... I'll show myself out.

 

[benjenbav]

Yeish! Quite the looker! Does look very special indeed. I will put it to Erick (Mr Kahlenberg) to see what he thinks, thank you for the idea.

Out of curiositry, what kind of work were you doing for you 'working late' and managed to discover this beauty?

Toby

P.S. We're not exhibiting at London boat show. We had budgeted to do one of the two and given the lack of great news about the London Boat Show, Southampton was our show of choice.

P.P.S. Was very tempted to make my post rife with puns. e.g. "Don't want to hound you about this" or "Visit our stand on K-9"... I'll show myself out.

Working late last night was assembling the killer evidence to blow someone's legal case out of the water. One of the guys on the team had just bought it and after a bit of ribaldry along the lines of "Jimmy's got the horn" we decided that the office was quiet enough to make some noise and we put the item through its paces.

I'm all for puns, as someone who still thinks the funniest joke in the history of the world is "what's brown and sticky?"

(A stick)

 

[Groot T]

Working late last night was assembling the killer evidence to blow someone's legal case out of the water. One of the guys on the team had just bought it and after a bit of ribaldry along the lines of "Jimmy's got the horn" we decided that the office was quiet enough to make some noise and we put the item through its paces.

I'm all for puns, as someone who still thinks the funniest joke in the history of the world is "what's brown and sticky?"

(A stick)

How did it sound, apart from loud? Bet it was fantastic!

Btw, if you're a man who likes puns, google 'Pun Raccoon'. Some of my favourites so far are..
"I called my iPod Titanic... Its syncing now"
"What do you call a laptop that can sing.. A DELL"
"I give away dead batteries.. free of charge, of course"
Finally..
"Cartoonist found dead in home.. details are sketchy".

 

[Piers]

My horn's bigger than yours!

Hi Guys,

I've been out the last few days checking progress on Play d'eau's refurbishment. Just come back and seen this thread - so my apologies for taking so long to respond.

There's no doubt that the size, sound and looks of a horn, really matter.

We have one customer who just wanted the deepest sounding horn possible. Well, the 135 Hz wasn't deep enough, so we suggested a 'special' at 110Hz. But, even that wasn't deep enough. Time to talk with the Kahlenbergs in the USA and tap into some history.

Having looked in the basement of the building they've occupied since the early 1900s, they found a prototype from years previously, and came back with the offer of an 85 Hz air horn, which would deliver around 149 dB.

'Now that's talking,' said the customer. 'Perfect. That'll rattle someone's intestines all right!'.

It is still being constructed, but when we have some pics, we'll post them for you.

 

[sarabande]

I was involved in some dastardly work many years ago relating to developing sonic apparatus left over from WW1.

It was a French device. looking not unlike a small spinnaker, with a sound source at the internal focus. It sent out waves at roughly 30 Hz, with some harmonics from that frequency. When fired up and 'pointed' at a target (freshly dead pigs were used) the corpse would be seen to shake quite dramatically, and p.m. examination revealed that considerable and irreversible damage to organs in the visceral cavity was caused. Needless to say the lawyers decided that the Hague Convention applied...

Spinout work on the effects of vibration on the human frame had two useful results:

firstly in the design of jet aircraft seats, where early engines tranmitted vibration at around 30 KHz to pilots, causing their eyes to lose focus, and the driver to become rather ill, and
secondly in early lorry seats where a similar effects but at a lower frequency was found to be causing nausea to the occupant.


So, Piers, you may well have a weapon of mass ( ) destruction on your hands.

 

[Piers]

I was involved in some dastardly work many years ago relating to developing sonic apparatus left over from WW1.

It was a French device. looking not unlike a small spinnaker, with a sound source at the internal focus. It sent out waves at roughly 30 Hz, with some harmonics from that frequency. When fired up and 'pointed' at a target (freshly dead pigs were used) the corpse would be seen to shake quite dramatically, and p.m. examination revealed that considerable and irreversible damage to organs in the visceral cavity was caused. Needless to say the lawyers decided that the Hague Convention applied...

Spinout work on the effects of vibration on the human frame had two useful results:

firstly in the design of jet aircraft seats, where early engines tranmitted vibration at around 30 KHz to pilots, causing their eyes to lose focus, and the driver to become rather ill, and
secondly in early lorry seats where a similar effects but at a lower frequency was found to be causing nausea to the occupant.


So, Piers, you may well have a weapon of mass ( ) destruction on your hands.

Now that's really intetresting. When I was flying for BA, there was a time en route LHR to JFK when we battling against a really strong head wind in a jet stream - some 170kts against us. No turbulence at all, which made us realise we had to be in the core, the 'eye'.

Wanting to reduce the headwind, we requested a lower flight level which was granted. As we descended we suddenly hit turbulence which was the worst I had even experienced.

The vibration was such that my eyes began bouncing in their sockets and everything became blurred. The only way I could see what was happening was to press a finger against the bottom eye lid to squeeze the eye a bit, whilst looking down the length of my arm as I pointed to various instruments to see what was happening.

Eye ball bounce. 30Hz? Interesting.

Piers

 

[gravygraham]

Am I right in thinking the yanks have a gadget like this which they deploy at times of civil unrest - makes the demonstrators soil their pants I do believe.

 

[Piers]

Am I right in thinking the yanks have a gadget like this which they deploy at times of civil unrest - makes the demonstrators soil their pants I do believe.

It's a commercially produced bit if kit called the LRAD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device). Typically used against pirates. First it's used to broadcast warnings followed by debilitating sounds. It can focus it's sound into a cone so it's quite directional.

Piers