Ahwooga is a popular sound made by old timey cars, lusty cartoon wolves and construction workers. Even old timey submarines were submerging to a loud loop of ahwoogas. The guy who invented the Klaxon horn also invented hearing aids, so you do the math there. In the early aughts, the City was just beginning to […]
Archive of posts tagged horns
Air Horn
Before the government bans all manner of horns, let’s have a timely post on everybody’s favorite—the portable air horn. Like Pavlov’s bell, I’m pretty sure every living creature despises this cruel sound. More jump-scare than sound object. The loudness is definitely the most annoying aspect, but the portamento also plays a role in this handheld […]
My Car Horn
View this post on Instagram My car horn's got the minor 3. G# and a B. I always hear car horns as the top part of a Major chord for some reason, despite the lack of a root note. I guess I'm the root note. Most car horns play a similar interval, which is actually […]
Beep, Beep
Traffic is the biggest brass band on the streets. In between swelling swooshes of many mediums, vehicles of every key sing onomatopoeic songs―car horn honks, backup truck beeps, klaxon awoogas, train choos, and bicycle bell brrngs―all day and all night and all afternoon, fading in and fading out, with timbres thrown back to the Jazz […]
