Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
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Can we just appreciate his pretty much perfect impression of a horn?
yep.
3:13 Damn, he even swears in *horn*
@@bloodaid just noticed xD
Scrolled to comment section immediately after that. Thank heavens, your comment was at the top :)
yeah, that was really good indeed :D
Submarines. I served on a submarine. We had a dive alarm that attempted to replicate the klaxon but sounded like an elephant getting kicked in the nuts. We installed an old-timey klaxon and played it over the 1MC announcing system when diving. It made us feel more submariney.
Mmmm... now I wonder how does someone kick an elephant in the nuts?
I would argue that the normal klaxon already sounds like an elephant getting kicked in the nuts
@@teresashinkansen9402 ... and SURVIVE doing so! lol
very important upgrade
@@teresashinkansen9402 Do a handstand
Submariner here.
We no longer have klaxons installed as standard equipment. The new version runs from the announcing system (each alarm is a different circuit card) and sounds a bit like several dogs dying, so we often find old klaxons from decommissioned subs and wire them in on the sly.
The new ones should say "Everyone fart really hard so somone up above hears us?".... Sorry bud, I hear sub I can't help thinking of "Down Periscope"...lol
Thank you & your family for your service!
Fact is our families serve right along with us rather we understand that our not they are along for the ride for damn sure. 🫡..Peace!
Tax payer here. Dear military industrial complex, if you're going to spend so much damn funding on these things, could you have the common decency and expression of some level of functional intelligence to give the kids that sign up years of their lives away to operate some of the death traps yall produce the kind of alarm system that inspires them to not regret their decision dedicating those years in service of a country that would apparently give them digital dogfarts instead?
Maybe there is a sonic component to their reasoning, like it resonates in the hull and could be used to figure out where the sub is..... but honestly if that were the case Id have more issue with international relations being that tense where a freaking dive horn would give up the game..... Just give em the fucking klaxon for friggs sake.
Signed, one of many who funded your shit alarm.
ps - Im sorry sailor, I didnt know they screwed the pooch that bad....
As a Greek person, I can tell you the ancient Greek word ”klazo” is used in its modern Greek version as "klano”,and it means ”fart". Very nice!
Farting, aka Nature's organic horn.
As also a Greek person who actually knows Greek, "klazo" and "klano" are two entirely different words not even remotely relevant to one another. "Klazo" means to create any high pitched/piercing sound like metal ringing.
I wish I could fart "awooga!" on demand.
Hahahahahah klano
Very nice!
I wonder if his neighbors were wondering why there was a traffic jam in his house.
It's a good thing that his studio is in the basement of a house in a rural area!
Don't be silly, of course they weren't. They were, however, wondering why there was a submarine battle going on in there.
I wonder whether he still has neighbours. I wonder whether he has been institutionalised yet, without access to technology and old stuff.
My theory is this video was filmed a long time ago, and is how he got his level 2 charger installed "if you don't install my charger, I'll play with the horns again" "oh god no, give him the damn charger"
You mean his Neighbor wondering why is there a submarine going to dive in his house.
"Through the magic of buying two..." might be my favorite reoccurring joke.
This has to be the dumbest recurring joke on RUclips. And it's probably my favourite, too.
@@AlleyKatt Well it's better than food network chefs going "here's one i prepared earlier that in now way shape or form that one of the lackeys made ahead of time for me because i couldn't be bothered to.
only if you say it more than once
It's 2 years later and I'm still not sick of it 😂😂
Might be a stretch, but another thing to notice in this case: as he's putting down parts of it, he makes two thumps and a kind-of-a cymbal hit with them. Literal badum-tshh, though not in the same rhythm
I just got my emissions test done and every time they moved a car they would hit the horn a couple times. Just being able to watch through the windows at the testers reactions would make that horn worth it.
Dew it
Depending on you car, you may get an even better reaction when getting tires/ a rotation. If you ask them to relearn the TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System/Sensor) there's a chance (depending on manufacturer) that the horn will honk. Most commonly on GM cars and trucks.
What happens is the car is put into TPMS Relearn Mode; the horn will honk twice. After that, they will have to trigger each sensor (1 per tire) and once the car recognizes that a sensor has been triggered, it'll honk one more time. This will leave you with 8 short honks. I hate doing this with regular car honks... I don't want this with louder horns.
The whole point of relearning the sensors is so the vehicle knows which sensors it needs to keep track of. Some cars even tell you what pressure the tires are at, and this is nice except most shops don't relearn the sensors, so you may see it says your front passenger side tire is low, when its actually your driver rear, or you driver front, or your passenger rear. If your vehicle does show where the tires are, make sure they relearn the sensors every time you get a rotation or new tires. They cant charge you because technically it could be considered "disabling a safety feature" which in the eyes of DOT any safety feature is equal to all... disable a tire light, just as bad as disabling the airbags. Being said, this is more of a technicality, and most places wont put up much of a fight if you tell them that information. They'll assume you know what you're talking about and they'll know its an uphill battle.
I did not mean to type out a whole essay. One thing lead to another, and this is what I'm left with. I'm sorry
When I lived in NJ the emission test included EVERYTHING but the sound system - lights, horn, brakes. Here in Georgia they check NOTHING. All the cars around you are death machines but no harmful emissions.
@@marccolten9801 wanna talk about death machines… I had a customer who was worried about his rear brakes. He got them done at some sketchy place. Let me just list some of the issues…. The pitman arm (what steers the car) has so much play in it, the rear hubs had play, I don’t even know how the balljoints were in place, they’re just waiting to fall out. It has engine codes, ABS codes, one of the leaf spring shackle’s u bolt was snapped- on both sides, the place he had it worked on just gave him his parking brake saying it “fell off” (it has drums and that means the parking brake is required for it to function), the brake pedal was super soft and unresponsive, there was an old brake line that was just resting in the back of the truck, any time you’d put it in drive it would jolt forward, both front swaybar links were snapped, one of the rear brake cylinders was spewing fluid, the rear shocks were completely blown, one of the rubber bushings was just missing from one of the shocks, it leaked trans fluid, and best of all… there were 3 holes in the transmission… just straight up 3 holes? All of which looked to be done by the manufacturer. 2 of which had threads. There’s more if you want.
Customer doesn’t care about any food that… just wants his brakes to work.
@@congruentcrib As somone from the UK, Oof. That would not be road legal.
I’ve had one of these installed on my car for about two years. I hardly ever use my horn, and every time I do, I’ve completely forgotten about it and it scares me every time.
LOL!!
just wait till you accidently set the alarm off
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Car: *Activates horn*
Neighbor: It's probably a submarine.
But the horn makes "one ping only, Mr. Vizili"!
Car: *activates horn (for the seventh time)
Neighbour: Dammit, when is he going to fix his submarine!?
What? A submarine in the community pond?
@@eken81 no, a submarine in your flooded basement.
ahh yes, the common suburban submarine
4:25 “Through the magic of “Buying Two of Them’” is still my favorite running joke on this show.
Finally got it. The magic of repeating a joke like the magic of repeating the buy. Like the magic of explaining a joke...
The way you used quotes annoys me
That one German kid Sourkraut he cant reply bc he flew awaysahsbxhhfjhfcniufvf
The initial sounding of the klaxon horn and the fear response to it combine to create a stunning and hilarious audio-visual experience that I hope to pass on to my progeny in the future.
Dude, the fact that you’re wearing a 727 shirt is an elixir for my soul. That’s one of my favorite airliners of all time…mostly retired now and massively under-appreciated for the “pilots’ airplane” that it was
I wish I was back in those times.
wysi wyfsi
I didn’t take that noise warning seriously enough.
😂🤣🤣🤣
I go the other way. I muted it... And loved his face.
Saaaaame! Lmao
Same
I read this before he used that horn and I'm glad I did.
I turned my sound down to the point where it was almost on mute and it was still loud.
When you say "you shouldn't put it on your car" I'm hearing "its perfect for your shitbox motorcycle" Perfect tip, thanks!
Same for my shitbox pickup...right next to the spot I am leaving for the eventual cruise ship horn.
What for? Shitbox motorcycles' exhaust note should overshadow any horn anyway.
PortCharmers maybe not this one lol. It’s f***ing loud
Bugger your motorcycle, I'm trying to figure out how to fit one to a bicycle...
I use a snail style air horn on my bikes. Compact and probably louder.
Instead of a blind witch sideswiping me at 110mph on the autobahn she jumped up and ate her headlining.
6:51 I would love to see the look on a thief's face when the car suddenly goes into dive mode 😂😂😂
Having found this channel and binge watching the videos, I can say the "power of buying two of them" jokes, does, in fact, not get old.
I can't stop laughing from the car alarm diving joke. I got the mental image of someone smashing your car's window, only for the horn to start blaring, the radio starts yelling "dive, dive, dive!" and the car sinks into the ground.
This is a beautiful image and I love you for it
Colin Furze is working on it 😂
Hey Alec! I found another one for the weirdo club! Welcome, brother.😁
imagine this actually happening to your car
someone just breaks your window and your car goes into the ground. then what do you do?
That's how it feels to be dreaming
Can we just appreciate that horn noise he made with his mouth at the start
It was surprisingly accurate.
@@YostPeter It was a very... pleased sounding horn, though: "a-HOOOO-ahhhh!"
Totaly not a way to tell a car to Frick Off
Amen. That had me floored, the rest of the video, however solid, is struggling to get my attention after that glorious sound! It sounded even more like a klaxon than a klaxon!!
You could use his voice audio and allowed speaker as a horn.
6:27 this just reminds me of my parents old car when we lived in Pennsylvania, it’s horn didn’t work, and for some reason couldn’t just be fixed. It needed a horn to pass state inspection though, so the mechanic just rigged up a new horn that for some reason had a button that you could either reach down with your hand to hit, or reach up with your leg, but it was incredibly easy to bump with your left knee in such a tiny car (especially since my parents are both over 5’10”) the amount of times someone accidentally honked when getting in and out of that car was ridiculous
LOL!!!
The impression of the klaxon was amazing, and 3:13 dang
"The result is a f*honk*ing loud noise"
Best censor ever.
Fhonk
lolololol
*beep
IKR!
Time stamp is 1:21 I think
"And the result is a **CAR HORN** loud noise."
This channel is brilliant.
one time i remember hearing a horn like that and i droped a 6 pack of coke cans and they exploded all over the parking lot
@@mctv6486 Did you go back into the store to replace the cans and buy a clean pair of pants?
@@johnmcquay82 no it didnt get on me cuz i put them on a shelf and i was 5 feet away wehn they fell off the shelf and blew up
@Y O J I M B O 用心棒 no i was in a walmart
@Y O J I M B O 用心棒 I'll ask you: Is it this important?
Here's my fun fact about car horns! My great grandma could never hear when i was growing up, hearing aids and still couldn't hear you most of the time. I found out it was because she worked in a car factory tuning horns in probably the 50s-60s.
3:14 MY SOUL JUMPED OUT OF MY BODY THAT WAS SO LOUD
"Stupidly load." Silly noise". "Makes a sound by rotating a motor." and "only $10".
*Me, fixing one directly to a hand-held drill and sneaking up behind my flatmate* "You don't say?"
*former flatmate now
Ooooo, I think I might have to make something like this...
Bonus points for mating it to an impact wrench.
Jesus Christ that's an idea
My mate once carried a acid-lead battery and a Fiat Ducato horn on his bycicle. Imagine if I could gear *this* on the pedals.
My family’s car had a klaxon horn on it, we did indeed install it separately from the main horn.
We mostly used it for jokes and scaring people, they are very, very loud.
Edit: I am perfectly aware of the usage of a/an. Proofreading my writing for a RUclips comment is not something I bother to do.
“An klaxon”
I've done the same thing. It really wakes up people with their nose in their phone!
@@DryPaperHammerBro Yes, "A Klaxon", not "An Klaxon" It's bad enough the letter 'H' gets abused like that...... A herb, not An Herb!
@@neilforbes416 while i know and acknowledge it isnt correct, saying "an herb" rolls off the tongue better because its pronounced "erb" by everyone around me.
@@neilforbes416 Depends how you pronounce "herb". If you say it with a hard "h", like you'd say at the start of "huh", then "a herb" is correct. If you say it with no "h", like if you pronounced "huh" as "uh", then "an herb" is correct.
Basically, a/an doesn't depend on whether the next *letter* is a consonant, it depends whether the next *sound* is a consonant - otherwise it'd be a hour and an uniform.
"this joke will never get old."
Correct, never stop doing it.
"this joke is never gonna get old"
man, I've been watching this channel for years and my friend and I still sprinkle "through the magic of buying two of them..." into our work conversations.
I love how to subtitles are different with the two different horns
horn1: BEEP
horn2:beep
horn 1: (sounded angry)
horn 2: (it's not mad, just disappointed)
the subtitles are a gift
When it went to the kalxon, the subtitles went "Ahooooooga"
@@craftyfish0 "Holy *HONK!* this thing is loud!"
Absolute God tier subtitles
Yeah his subtitles are great. I usually don’t use subtitles but always turn them on for his videos
3:13 - That sound warning is no joke, I can barely hear him speaking but the horn was loud enough to make me jump.
yea it scared the %$& out of me XD
yeah i was looking at my breakfast when it popped up, frightening mistake
Nice avatar, DST is lots of fun
I even read this comment, waited at the t/s, still jumped lol
It made me laugh instead of scare me
A tech-con video i can't listen to when trying to sleep
"Through the magic of buying 2 of them ... This joke is never gonna get old" fast forward to 3 years later, still using the same joke, and it still isn't old.
*Eyes pop out, pupils turn to bombs and explode eyes, slams fist of table multiple times and empty eyeholes shoot out smoke puffs like a factory shift whistle, howls like wolf, tongue rolls out, screams AWOOOOOOOOOGA*
NOW THAT'S A DAME
Ayeloo Official HAHT CHA CHAAAA
i was desperately in search of this comment, my brow was absolutely caked in sweat like a newborn is caked in its mother's juice with worry that i would never see this again. thank you
This
you're forgetting the heart leaping out of your chest cavity about 3 feet
Ah yeah, we're on the same wavelength buddy
“to ahoog” that cracked me up.
5:53 for those who want to hear it again and again.
I remain dead. Someone send help.
@Nostaljack nah, you'll be fine
I installed one of these in my 1st new car, a 1980 VW Rabbit. I love cars of the 30s, 40s & 50s. In fact, I had my buddy put a 1950s 'flame job' on this car 3 months after I bought it! Nuts, HUH? Sand down a perfectly beautiful factory black paint job to put 'flames' on the hood, fenders & into the doors! The guy did an excellent job! Anyway, back to the horn. Everyone knew when I was around, as I DID make the 'ah-OOO-gah' my primary horn. I even had the state motor vehicle inspectors grinning & laughing. They said that the horn was DEFINATELY loud enough!! Anyway, I just sold the car to my daughter's girlfriend's dad about a month ago. I forgot to tell the guy about the horn. He hasn't gotten around to getting it running yet, but I'm sure my daughter will get a text about the horn. (PS- It never got wet, so I'm guessing that it still works!) Maybe I'll install one in the "06 Scion Tc that I just bought- Hmmm?
The klaxon's speedy click is a great example of how speeding up rhythm creates pitch.
"As in the event of a break-in, any would-be do-gooder will simply think your car is diving below the surface" was the line that killed me. That, and the short alarm blip.
Was hoping someone mentored this, it had me in stitches.
@@Adenzel do you need an ambulance
@@cowtastic141 Quite possibly, my typo makes it look like I'm having a stroke 😅
And I was drinking just as he said it, over my laptop as well...
gonna be honest i've been pretty down and out this past week and that line gave me one of the most unstoppable gut laughs i've had in a while
This is the first ever noise warning I've seen that's followed by an actually sufficiently jarring noise
Luckily I was in the process of turning my headset down. Glad I did.
You’ve never seen “Scotland forever,” then
I HAVE HEADPHONES ON AND IT WASN'T ENOUGH NOTICE
was turning down the volume and it still scared the shit out of me
I turned down my sound by like 2 dots and it still wasn’t enough
4:24
Nick Robison: "So I booked a plane ticket and got on a flight to Tokyo in search of answers"
Technology Connections: "Well, through the magic of buying two of them, I have an already-taken-apart one right here."
That was excellent, thank you.
The magic of buying a second one does, in fact, never get old.
I will still never get over the mythical third toaster
That horn scared the shit out of me. I thought that warning was a joke, like he brought out that big battery but it's quiet.
I had this playing in the background while I was painting and wasn't watching when be brought the klaxon out, and I nearly jumped out of my skin when he hooked it up.
Yeah same...
Saw the warning on the bus with my Bluetooth headset, and still got me.
Would love to see a video where increased current is applied to the klaxon and to see how the spin speed of the motor affects the sound
I never laughed so hard when he said “Holy That Horn is Loud!”😂😂😂😂😂 - I’m still tearing up!!
Wife comes home cranky after a bad rain storm. “I guess I’m gonna go bookmark this video about car horns, and save it for later”
No, i just didn’t have my headphones in xD
4:58 Maybe her diaphragm needs a bumpy ride. That usually cheers up my wife.
@@5roundsrapid263 giggity
"better use this... car battery that I have lying a-"
*[OOOOOOOGA!!!]*
3:13
you can see the horn roll because of the motor
@@michaelboydston313
... there's a video idea... 🐱 ...
@@mySeaPrince_ wat?
Holy f[Gary horn honk] this thing is loud!
@@michaelboydston313
Torque reaction?
“You’re my kind of weirdo”. Love it. Keep up the great Videos.
when i was about to add a ahooga horn to my old tractor, i see a video from one of my favorite youtuber about it. so great !
I d'know; if I heard a submarine announcing it was about to dive in the middle of the city, that would get my attention a lot better than just another car alarm.
Oh please,, everyone know submarines are in the water... not the city. FACTS: They have STRICT laws about diving horns ...which prevented the end of the world. A couple weeks ago I was in my Ohio-class nuclear submarine deciding which continent to obliterate when a Seawolf submarine pulled me over and gave me a ticket for the wrong diving horn. They searched my vessel and temporarily impounded my 24 ballistic missiles with MIRV warheads until I installed the correct diving horn and paid the $200 fine.
@@SunriseLAW Did you ever decide which continent to obliterate?
@@tlangdon12 Based on the Diving Horn Laws, I am thinking about the East Coast of USA from about Richmond VA up to Portland, Maine. I am still stinging over the $200 fine and I have to get a 'legal' diving horn. I contacted General Dynamics in Groton CT.... A new diving horn for an Ohio-class sub costs over $143 million!!!! I ended up ordering a Chinese-made diving horn, the exact same one they sell to General Dynamics for $95 and it is on its way!
@@SunriseLAW Result!
@@SunriseLAW
Have you been watching too many TC videos... 🐱 ...
"The other style of horn is this style, which I will call Gary."
I love this channel.
I love how that was immediately followed by "A Gary horn, also known as a trumpet horn, [...]"
If you aren't sure what something is called, give it an unnecessary name.
Gary... Hmm 🤔
By any chance a SPONGEBOB reference? 😂
There's an aurora called Steve.
@@TD070VA1 not necessarily. Gary is a common name. It could also be a Pokemon reference, given Alec's age.
I can confirm that this horn does just fine as a direct replacement on a 2001 Honda Accord, and brings joy to all who experience it 😁
I have one in my 62 Beetle and found putting a 1Ohm (50W) resistor in series does well to bring down the current. The slower rise and lower overall tone makes it sound far more 'friendly'.
instead of that resistor you just can wire a lightbulb
He did an almost perfect impression of one.
“a-woog.”
Flawless.
Well he's pulling info out of somewhere so he must be a proctologist
"Better use this car battery that I just have lying around"
You know, as you do.
Also, fun fact: those things were originally hand cranked. I have a feeling that's why they're "mechanical loudspeakers" run by a spinning motor. They just replaced the hand crank with an electric motor and called it a day.
Honestly, dont you? I dont even own a car and I got one
Currently (haha), I have 3 car batteries and some UPS 12v batteries lying around my house. Well, strictly speaking, they're lying around and being connected to a trickle charger, but yeah, they're around. Lying.
Well, guess taking one hand for relatively a long time to crank a horn would be dangerous while driving
I just rounded up my collection of car batteries a few days ago and discovered that 31 of them need to be brought to the scrapyard
A lot of them weren't "cranked" in the manner of twisting a handle in a circle. They used a rack and pinion with the rack sitting along side the flywheel inside. The device would be mounted to the side of the car near the driver (like on the door post or windshield pillar) and said operator would mash the top of the rack. This would spin up the flywheel for a quick burst. This is the same way those thumb-drive sparkler toys worked.
The perfection of your verbal impression of the horn really caught me of guard in the first 10 seconds of the video. Was NOT expecting such a good sound.
It's no wonder you have one and a half million subs - fact filled, fun and engaging. I REALLY learn a lot from every one of your videos. Cool and fun to watch and listen to. More please!
I edited this comment so you won't know what i said.
LMFAO! 😂
Criminal: "What the-?! Aaarrrgggbrlblbrbrlblblbrlblb!!!!" 🏊
Dammit I stole a bait sub!
@@lgn700 It was a sting operation by the Navy the whole time.
LMAO
"Up rearview mirror!"
That was a surprisingly accurate vocalization of an old car horn.
One of my favorite things about this channel is the thinly veiled contempt he has for the audience. It's half a bit and half genuine dread of having to deal with online disagreements because they can be so tiring even in the best of cases. I absolutely love it.
i think the major drawback of these horns is, that one is unable to express anger with it and instead make everyone around happy :)
"...cars are dangerous things, and people are stupidly dangerous almost all of the time..."
I feel seen
Just heard cars about to crash while typing this. So, yeah. I can confirm.
Car accidents kill more people in the US every year than firearms.
This sums up my entire experience with humanity.
“And people are stupidly dangerous nearly all the time” we really should come with a warning label of some sort
Caution: stupid people
"Here's your sign". Bill Engvall already had that insight ;-)
epiccollision warranty and information card delivered at birth
Most people do, you just can't see it. There's usually two types: Democrat and Republican.
It's almost as if we are the trailer trash of the galaxy , or the universe...
I love the magic of buying two and then the technicality of the bumpy things
Unrelated comment, but made due to Alex's shirt, my grandpa was an aerospace engineer who worked for Air Canada for most of his career and always said "727/747, not an airplane, just the time 🙃!"
He was a wonderful man, and I say it to my kids now too
A music theory snob would come here and say: “two notes doesn’t make a chord, but an INTERVAL”
Good thing there's no accursed music theory snobs lurking around here!
This music theory snob always thought a car horn sounded like the 5th and 3rd of a major cord... I just don't hear a minor chord at all.
@@caseymcmurtry2124 The 3rd and 5th of a major chord form a minor dyad.
You sure, you're a theory snob? ;)
@@caseymcmurtry2124 the interval of those two notes is a minor 3rd. Take a Cmaj chord, C-E-G. C to E is a major third, which gives the chord its quality. E to G is a minor third. The inverse is true of minor chords. Cmin is C-Eb-G, C to Eb is a minor third, and Eb to G is a major third. Other cases include diminished triads, which are two minor 3rds (C-Eb-Gb for example) and augmented triads, which are two major 3rds on top of each other (like C-E-G#)
Not a music theory person, just a guitar noob here: what about power chords?
“I think there wasn’t a Greek word for.. to awoog.”
It has been long enough. Is there one now? I mean, surely at some point over the centuries, *someone* in Greece has needed to awoog by now. The odds are just too high.
I'm Greek and I've never heard that word. I guess we've stopped awooging...
Installed one in my small truck with it's own button. It's also powered through a 12V relay and separate fuse added for it. Mainly use it when driving by local tire shop where friends work. :-D
My husband was a truck driver. He took the horn that came with his truck off and installed a train horn. He favorite thing to do was wait for someone to walk in front of his truck and blow that thing. Everyone jumps. Everyone. Railroad crossings were some times funny as hell. we were stopped by a train, train goes by, the arms lift he waits for the guy in the car ahead of us to get just about on the tracks and he blows the horn and the car in front of us slams on his brakes. I Imagine that was a charmin moment for that guy.
"It appears to run on some form of electricity"
"Well, you're not wrong..."
I understood that reference
I love how he taunts us with the challenge of installing these into our cars.
Telling us how bad of an idea it is, yet with a wink gives us full instructions on how it can be managed.
SwankeyMonkey I actually installed one of these on my old Ford Taurus and it was hilarious
An old fella I lived with had 2, one on his car and one on his mobility scooter 😂
The horn in my 78 f150 died so I replaced it with one
oh boy, I wonder if this video is gonna see a spike in views as gidle now has people wondering “what the fuck is a klaxon”
u caught me…. 😭
“No effort november.” Very catchy wording and also a genius way to sort of have a small'ish break while still cranking out good content. You are an absolute success with your channel of ideas. Keep staying in the game as you always do my friend! We all appreciate you!
"Well, cars are dangerous things, and people are stupidly dangerous nearly all the time!" Truer words have never been spoken.
You should see how bad it gets where I live!
100% accurate!!!
"this joke is never gonna get old"
"When in doubt take the silly option." Amen brother!
Does the girl come with the horn? 😝
@@seanwieland9763 i think she provides it ;)
6:57 "as in the event of a break in, any would be do-gooders will simply think your car is diving below the surface" - TC, 2019
Thank you, I forgot all about that noise. We used to mimic that noise when riding our Big Wheels back in the early 1970s, thumbs up.
"All submarines are legally required to have one of these to signal that they're about to *die.* "
I believe the term is Dive. ;)
Dive, not die.
Sort of. In non-combat dives, that is the case.
In combat dives... Using a horn is a really bad idea unless you want every enemy to know where you are.
@@firstdictonary yep. A diving sub with a klaxon would instantly be detected with accuracy. It'd be a death sentence.
Before you sea sea life, you must DIIIIIIVVEEEEEE
"Layered sounds can be difficult to decipher and I'm not a *proctologist* .”
I mean, he's not wrong.
I'm not a proctologist either.
Vegeta is tho
for anyone out of the loop, a proctologist is an ass doctor / specialist
That one had me rolling.
i love the captions, saying BEEEEP and tooot when the horns are honking!
I brought a horn back from Austria called an "Alpine mountain horn" that was used on buses and trucks to signal when turning on a switchback on the mountain roads. You couldn't see around the curve, but you damn well could hear these. I hooked it up in my garage to see if it worked before installing it. Damn thing scared the shit out of me, the wife and kids and several neighbors. It didn't get put on.
When I was in high school my dad and I restored a 1927 Chevrolet. My recollection is that the klaxon on that car had a motor driving a rotating drumstick that hit the diaphragm when you used the horn. Since it was literally one beat per revolution the sound was lower and the modulation more distinct than these modern klaxons. (this was 60 years ago so my memory may be faulty)
If that was 60 years ago how old are you now
Probably at least 60
My Dad helped his Mother fix their 1932 Ford Model A in their driveway, during the winter, when he was younger than 10. It was their daily driver and had to run well every day. Grandpa died in 1949 when Dad was just 6 going on 7. So this man could be in his 70s.
@jernejj5 My dad is 79, and he said that all the kids in the village of Onota went to a one room schoolhouse, kindergarten through 12th grade in the same room, with just one teacher. The older kids helped tutor the younger kids. 12 year-olds were in 5th grade, unless they scored higher on the tests and could skip some grades. But back then the really old cars were much simpler to repair and restore than cars of today. A toolbox might have 3 or 4 wrenches, a hacksaw, one flatbit screwdriver, a hammer and a coil of baling wire. This could fit in a small box beneath the seat. And kids helped work on cars from an early age, as their smaller hands could reach into places a grownups couldnt.
@@jacobshort6528 Your adjust the tone by adjusting the nut on the top of the horn diaphragm. This changes the tension between the diaphragm, the ball bearing and the rotating wave washer-really simple in concept. -John in Texas
these horns could damage the ears of other people! You cant use them in a ca-
haha red horn go *A W O O G A*
KLAXON BEAT
@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 Now I'm so looking forward to DJs sampling the awooga sound and use it in their mixes 😆
You can't do anything in Commiefornia.
wow! Thank you for 1000 likes guys! Very cool!
I'm buying one right now to install in my car because of this video.
The humor, the knowledge, the topic. I’m subscribing 😂❤
I installed a klaxon alarm as the horn on my truck when I was rebuilding the front end. Hands down best decision I have ever made.
Yep... Highlight of my life....
Forget the minor third. I want a pair of horns that's tuned to a tritone.
No, 4 horns for a minor flatted seventh, The blues chord. Trains use it.
@@user-vn7ky2xr1x isn't that what it literally is? (The tritone is also called the Devil's interval; I just remember it as that one pair of notes whose ratio of pitches is the square root of 2 that wants to resolve by having one or both notes move up or down a half step so that you get a major third or major fifth or something like that.)
@@user-vn7ky2xr1x Thank you! That's the response I was hoping for! It's nice to know I'm not the only music theory geek around here. 😁
Summoning demons would be the least of your worries!
If it wasn't for the devils interval, Black Sabbath would have never existed. And that would not be cool.
"I'm not a proctologist"
What a bummer.
omg
And the winner for the most underrated comment goes to...
definitely not urs
BUM-er
ok bummer.
I've always liked the juxtaposition of a klaxon on a submarine. "Right, sneaky beaky time. Time to dive AHOOOGAAAAHH "
What a joy to watch a horn video that has horn sounds instead of 20 minutes of talking. Thanks
Two notes make a chord!? You'll surely anger the music theory gods with that one..
I have already received feedback, yes
@@TechnologyConnections love you Alec!
@@TechnologyConnections Mission Accomplished, eh?
According to 8-Bit Music Theory, yes, you can make a chord with only two notes.
You could argue that any sound with extreme upper harmonic overtones (like a horn or siren) is already a chord. Power chords are just two notes for that reason, the excessive overtones of a distorted guitar would make playing "correct" chords with 3 notes sound bad / messy.
“Your manufacture decides to spurge on you”
“Holy f[HONK], that was loud!”
I dunno why but I chuckled at that.
"they will just think your car is thinking"
Really had to laugh about that.
Good one.
TC: Holy [honk] this thing is LOUD!
Me: Now that would make for a perfect alarm clock upgrade.
Here you go lol
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That'll bust your ear drums!
@@jacobshort6528 and as an added bonus, wake you up instantly! Heck, you might start automatically waking up 10 minutes before the alarm goes off, so you can defuse it first!
@@tbuk8350 Oh wait! You can't defuse it.
@@tbuk8350 😂
"This would be an effective horn should you put one on your vehicle."
[In the exact same tone]
"Should you put one on your vehicle?"
Hilarious!
I have a large chrome ah ooh gah horn on my antique Dodge. People, especially children, love it at Car shows
“they’ll just think you’re diving underwater” … 😂
“Layered sounds can be difficult to decipher, and I’m not a proctologist.” I swear I almost passed out after laughing so hard from this…quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve heard so far this decade!
Omg this will age like a fine wine!
I agree, He tells his jokes all the time and I usually smile and nod out of politeness. This time I laughed out loud.
I seriously can't figure out the joke...
@@quilynn The best I can think of is the fact that proctologists can use ultrasound to check your bum, going thru the different layers in your skin, I can't think of anything else.
@@quilynn Honestly, you are not alone.
Even with the noise warning, that horn still made me jump. Wow, that thing is loud.
I did NOT have enough time to turn down the volume once it came out. It didn't hurt my ears, but dang if it didn't startle me.
I didn't even notice the noise warning and I wasn't looking. Scared the living hell out of me.
I was glade not to be watching this on the TV. Even if the neighbors are out the business down stairs might not like the sound.
I'm not really sure if what we heard was really the sound created when he closed the circuit. If it was and was as loud as it's supposed to be, there would have been clipping in the recorded audio. He would have had to record the klaxon with other settings than for his voice recording. What I'm trying to say is that your perception of the sound being louder than you expected is skewed as Alec most likely placed the sound and deliberately set the loudness in post.
I'm not suggesting this type of horn wasn't fairly loud if you stood right in front of it when it goes off.
@@LoboPreto No, yeah, the bloopers at the end of the video imply the sound was in fact dubbed in, as the sound made in the bloopers is clipped to hell.
The amount of sarcasm is astounding never change please
I have replaced the little hooter on my narrowboat with one of these. Love it, suits my 50 year old boat well. :)