I put OT with a question as I'm not sure WE...but at least worth a look
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I put OT with a question as I'm not sure WE...but at least worth a look
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Wow. Yes those are weird. Curious what driver bolts up to them!
Prehistoric snail shells. :rolleyes2:
There were some old radios that had a horn kinda like that........ may have been a different material, Though. It's been awhile since I saw it, and it was inside the cabinet, not outside.
...... and yes, weird looking.
Strange indeed! I'd love to have them, but not for $2800. There is also a single unit on ebay with a driver for $350.
Western Electric Exponential Elephant Horn with a Speaker Driver | eBay
No tickee, no shirtee. Where's the WE label on that thing? Without it, it has no pedigree. If there WAS a label, it would be shown for sure.
BTW, doesn't make sense in my mind to have that long air column when the mouth isn't really that big. But what do I know...
I don't think they are WE.But I have been wrong before. :wink2: WE didn't make plastic or fiberglass horns in the 30's & 40's did they ? Wood and Metal AFAIK.. Maybe some kind of replicas ? Interesting.
Fiberglass was in use before WWII but never saw a WE in glass...
they look like paper mache horns from early cabinet radio, i just sold an early a radio a while back with a similarly coiled horn.
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Originally Posted by gvasale
Yes, these were from antique radios...Grunow/Majestic, maybe? Hard to find a matched pair in one place, I'd bet.
A bit too organic looking for me! Scary!
Where do you see $2800? Did OG supply a link, that I can't see/find?Quote:
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connector looks like a hydraulic brake line part ...
Nah spaced out and forgot itQuote:
Originally Posted by Audio_by_Goodwill
WESTERN ELECTRIC ELEPHANT HORN SPEAKER FOR WE 275A TUBE AMP. | eBay
Again, never saw anything like that on all the WE postings on the 'net. Having trouble getting hose pics to load from ebay, but there hasn't been a WE nameplate, so I still suspect they are bogus. Its like me copying the WE 13 & 14 horns and calling them WE without a label. BTW, I guess I deleted the picture and it didn't come up when I did a site search, but the WE Fiberglass horn I posted a few months back does have a label and it therefore must be early fortys at the latest. Much better than the one that was all mangled on Ebay, too.
The redhead says they remind her of doo-doo. Possibly an appropriate observation.
Maybe Dairy Queen had a speaker division?
here's a couple pics of bent paper mache radio horns:
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There actually was a paper mache car...
Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1969 - Harold Pace, Mark R. Brinker - Google Books
They almost look like someone grew them, not built them. (Or the redhead's idea).
Thanks for the pix, Bowtie. Wonder how you make a horn like that?
OT. Cool book, thanks for that OG. It takes me back to when when I was a kid and there actually was some "stock" in stock car racing and you run what you brung. Cars like those were the inspiration I have been using in my 8 wheeled wonder car I have been designing forever, all of these years later. :)Quote:
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I'm just guessing, but if it were me, I would build the inner mold buck, cover that with paper mache, cut the matche in half to remove the buck, and paper mache some more to glue the two halves back together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Panomaniac
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.Quote:
Wonder how you make a horn like that?
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.
How do you think these things would sound ? :confused2:
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...
Ouch ! Well I'm not going there anytime soon ! :wink2:
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.
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. :)
