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A horn is a sound-making device installed on motor vehicles, trains, boats, and other types of vehicles. The sound it makes usually resembles a “honk” (older vehicles) or a “beep” (modern vehicles). The driver uses the horn to warn others of the vehicle's presence or approach, or to call attention to some hazard.
Beep, beep, 1929 word for a car horn; Ching, the sound of metal on metal; Clink, the sound of glass on glass; Fizz, sound of effervescence; Flutter, sound of rapid motion, e.g. aeroelastic flutter; Oom-pah, the rhythmical sound of a deep brass instrument in a band; Ring, the sound made by an old telephone; Slosh, the sound of liquid moving ...
A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine.The term has its origin in onomatopoeia.The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.
If the wave is a sound wave and the sound source is moving faster than the speed of sound, the resulting shock wave creates a sonic boom. Lord Rayleigh predicted the following effect in his classic book on sound: if the observer were moving from the (stationary) source at twice the speed of sound, a musical piece previously emitted by that ...
A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s). A common form (right) consists of a compression driver which produces sound waves with a small metal diaphragm vibrated by an electromagnet, attached to a horn, a flaring duct to conduct the sound waves to the open air.
The Road Runner's "beep, beep" sound was inspired by background artist Paul Julian's imitation of a car horn. [19] Julian voiced the various recordings of the phrase used throughout the Road Runner cartoons, although on-screen he was uncredited for his work.
The Mexican Pizza is a lesson in scarcity. First introduced in 1985 as the Pizzazz Pizza, this sandwich of beef and beans between corn tostada shells, topped with cheese tomatoes and a tangy sauce ...
BRAAAM is a loud, low sound typically produced using real or synthesized brass instruments.One of the best-known examples also involved a prepared piano.Seth Abramovitch of The Hollywood Reporter described the sound as "like a foghorn on steroids" which is "meant to impart a sense of apocalyptic momentousness". [3]