Horns at their ready, cars into gear
2016 is coming, so have a happy new year… :D:p
My new years hornblasting resolution is to actually get my setup complete so I can honk the many horns still sitting under my bed awaiting install (due to tough financial barriers). Following that I wanna try for the guiness book of records. Anything beyond that I’ll perhaps save for the following year.
Any hornblasting resolutions you guys have to give for yourselves ???
Happy new year. 
Oops, better not forget Dana
They’re pretty cool :eek::). I guess they are for events in fields that you see in youtube videos.
Anybody know where the Bighorn vehicle is now? I have a 1983 photo of me standing in front of its original form at Kinzer, PA when the truck was still owned and driven by its creator, Milo Novak. When Milo’s health failed the truck with all its goodies was purchased by my friend Hyler Bracey. I tuned the M3 and M5 for him. He added a ton of new horns and whistles, plus a caliophone to the now heavily overloaded truck which was hauled around in a trailer to events. When the trailer rolled over during one trip, destroying the truck, is when Hyler contracted some university students to come up with a new design and the parade float-like Bighorn was born. A far cry from 1983 when Milo drove ‘Bighorn’ (The bighorn name was coined by Hyler Bracey) all the way from Michigan to Kinzer for our horn meet. I never heard the parade float Bighorn, but Hyler told me that they used very low pressure to blow the horns and whistles so as not to damage the hearing of spectators. When Hyler decided to move onto other things, this float was auctioned off for over $500,000 at a car auction. EDIT: The giant blue Kahlenberg horn with the flames-colored mouth is classified as the largest dedicated air-horn in the world. I tried to get Hyler to install a Leslie A-575 steam horn, but none were available at the time. Blown on air, these monsters belt out a 60CPS blast that rattles your chest!!!
Dana’s wonderful rig is totally different from Bighorn…Bighorn is a horn blow/whistle blow vehicle to amuse spectators. Dana’s rig is actually a MIDI-controlled musical instrument, and easily the loudest musical instrument in the world. ( cannot count the LRAD systems on some huge cruise ships that are being used like monster loudspeakers to play MIDI music to the crowds on shore and guests on the ship itself) In the past I asked Dana if he could make his instrument play multi-tone (Polyphonic) chords in the songs played since his horns range at least three full octaves of keyboard sound. Anyhow, Dana at least will most probably be using his rig news years eve!! Good stuff!!
By looks of things Bighorn is at the Austin Car Museum - Dana posted a link on his FB page.
Both wonderful contraptions - some people dream big, others build big.
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What happened to the photo of Dana’s rig? It disappeared!
… not sure. They must have moved or renamed the photo to where it was linked. Anyway, link fixed.
Hahahahaha!! This was back in 1983 at our yearly Kinzer, PA horn and whistle blow.
The fat kid standing in front of the original ‘Bighorn’ was me!! I lost all my weight and am not fat anymore. So as you see, the original was much more train horn dedicated, but the whistles are still in the back. Sorry, this photo was taken back in the day when there was no such thing as digital anything, this taken with a Polaroid Land Camera. Quality is poor.
Like those old full mechanical ones with the accordion front that came out and you pull the film out the side? LOL - we had one of those.
