Amazing orchestral novelty.
Thank you for sharing.
Scott.
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Amazing orchestra novelty.
Thanks for sharing.
I will show this to my grandchildren. I enjoyed the novelty.
Magical and charming at the same time.
Ausgezeichnet!
Interesting that all, but the last train were British trains!
5 years ago, somewhere in Germany, in a super market, just before Christmas:
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Years ago there was a novelty record of the 'singing dogs' doing Jingle Bells that was made by 'sequencing' tape clips of dogs at different pitches. I did a parody of this with NEC and other horns in the '70s when I had access to open-reel tape; you can get some pretty good chord effects with Doppler if you're patient enough when recording. In the early days of 'personal computers' someone wrote a program with a name something like the 'dog keyboard' which had dog sound files that let you do your own Singing Dogs 'covers', and of course this let you use your own sound files... somewhere I have a version of the 1812 Overture finale that is increasingly composed of tuned explosions with the occasional orchestral note, academic humor at its nerdiest. It would have been relatively easy to put a library of horn clips into this, and I suspect there's evidence out there in cyberspace that some did.
Then there was the whole hokey singing goat meme business. I remember... or dread that I do... hearing at least one "parody" that involved trains (and worse, it was trains with annoying horns) and perhaps someone can find examples, although there might be money it it for them not to.
On the other hand, what other examples of this style of video-clip montage music can we find? Or compose...
And on the gripping hand, there's the system Pribusin built for Keith Lay's Distance Organ... which leads to at least the possibility of a kind of MIDI-controllable calliope of air horns. As with historical whistle-based calliopes I don't know whether to welcome or dread the possibilities this opens up...
One of my friends posted it on his FB page.
I had trouble embedding the video on my mobile phone so had to switch to the desktop to finally get it to work.
That came up in my YouTube suggestions today. I didn't watch it, but did now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3QlR98--A
Your link works - after you go to YouTube. Quirk of the forum. Mine probably is the same way, although the plain link ought to work.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Music made of train horn sounds