From hammond321@yahoo.com Wed Jan 30 06:57:14 2013
Subject:Re: way O T -- Leslie Train Horns

Christian: Here is a link to the Leslie Company that makes and sells the air horns: http://www.lesliecontrols.com/Products/airwhistles.htm

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From: Christian Schonberger
To: "CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: way O T -- Leslie Train Horns


 
Found this:
 
http://www.jacksonperformanceproducts.com/hornpitches.htm
 
The Leslie Horn pitches are incomplete though. Of course those air horns are not in the "well tempered" scale :-)  Some are quite out of tune to each other, that's part of the "charm" I guess. Lots of the three chime horns sound either like an out-of-tune minor or diminished chord. Five chime horns often simply sound like a "sad" cluster (they are even called "horn clusters").
 
I guess most train horns today are made by the Nathan/AirChime Company. I was unable to find out anything from the Leslie Company. There are Internet-Groups and Forums. But I'm not going to talk about train horns iun Forums.
:-D
 
Call me an old sentimental fool, but that's the train whistle sound I like:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CulOfbl44
 

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From: Dennis den121961@yahoo.com>
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:00 PM
Subject: [CWSG] Re: way O T -- Leslie Train Horns

 
Funny, I thought we were nerds! We chase after the perfect sounding organ sound, they chase after the perfect sounding train sound! I guess we have to stop complaining about 450 pound hammonds, those locomotives gotta go at least twice as heavy.

--- In mailto:CloneWheel%40yahoogroups.com, "RonG" wrote:
>
> I was looking for recordings of soulful train whistles. You know there's nothing like that sound of the train as it rolls down the valley, hitting your soul like a major-minor 9th organ chord, with doppler effect, cancellation and addition of the horns' waves reflections... real moving sounds.
> I came upon this: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL378AD8D131FAE466
> Leslie Train Horns ! I wonder - could Don Leslie have been behind these? I didn't find any reference to him, but it sure would fit that the man behind the brilliant rotary speaker cabinet had his hand in these as well. Anybody know?
> cheers, Ron
>

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