Ahhh...... that's a keen idea!
I've always wanted to make a horn by taking a rubber sheet and pulling it to a point in the center as the mold.
i was thinking it could have been done over a mold made of silk and filled with sand, flexible and totally collapsible by letting the sand out.Wonder how you make a horn like that?
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
Ahhh...... that's a keen idea!
I've always wanted to make a horn by taking a rubber sheet and pulling it to a point in the center as the mold.
It would sound as accurate and or equal to a cheap transistor radio. You would still be able to identify a particular persons voice, but
unless you really want to listen to cactus needle victrolas, it's more of a curiosity. Might even sound like you stuck that transistor radio in the end of a long pipe...
Last edited by gvasale; June 22nd, 2012 at 04:03 PM.
I don't understand why it would sound like a cheap transistor radio. That horn is long enough to be pretty efficient in its bandwidth, and probably had a decent driver and electronics behind it. Has anyone actually heard one in good working condition?
The venerable W.E. 14A had a length to mouth width ratio of about 4:1. Wonder what these strange horns have?
Believe me, I'm no expert, but those "snout horns" we're talking about I'm willing to bet weren't the beneficiaries of any of the engineering study that WE did for their products. Just another way to fit a "morning glory" horn into a box. Some of those horns shown are nothing more than the immovable extension of the hollow phonograph pickup tube which had at the business end nothing more than some flexible diaphragm with a cactus or steel needle attached to it. So I speculate, or if you prefer, throw a little BS; even a cheap speaker is somewhat remarkable in what it does, it that you can recognize a particular voice. But lets not turn these things into "precisley engineered high accuracy reproducers."
Don't think anywhere near transistor radio bad. While not WE I don't think they are complete crap either. But ain't worth the asking, so for me moot point.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
Right, way overpriced. I'm just curios because I've never seen them before, it's a strange approach trying to get that much horn into such a small space. I've built paper mach? horns before (not coiled) and they were quite good. I doubt these would be bad, if well driven. We may never know.
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