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What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:56 am
by Mike Lopp
I thought of this the other day and I cant get the idea out of my head, so I thought I would post it. (Just for fun)

My FrankenTuba "TubaCzar" is definitely a 1927 Model T Ford Hot Rod.

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What about yours?

Mike

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 11:10 am
by roweenie
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:00 pm
by tclements
'66 Ford County Squire ....

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:08 pm
by Tabor
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:15 pm
by southtubist
Alexander 163 = old Cadillac. It's like riding in a big luxury car that has been well used but still runs good. Extremely comfortable, but has quirks- no seatbelts (difficult fingerings), kind of like having a manual transmission. Classy and big, but not over the top like a lifted diesel F950 (that's never seen the mud) or Hummer.

Meinl Weston 45k = An off road go-kart or heavily modified Jeep. It goes everywhere and is fast, very easy to drive but not particularly large.

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:32 pm
by Paul Scott
There was a similar thread a while back.....
A Martin tuba = a Packard.

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:44 pm
by WC8KCY
My Holton? A '29 Packard Standard Eight.

Ask the man who owns one.

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:51 pm
by windshieldbug
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:52 pm
by bort
Have the Swiss ever made a car?

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:58 pm
by Ken Herrick
The swiss Yodeller looked nice but went nowhere - always stuck in nuetral.

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:01 pm
by Worth
I'm thinking the Wisemann 900 to be like the Chinese Land Rover Evoque Copy, the Land Wind.
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:05 pm
by Charlie C Chowder
Oddly enough, I have always use the Packard to explain to the none musical person what my York is like in the tuba world. Big, lush, and old. Most of them understand. Now what do we use to explain it to the young kids who do not know or care about cars?

Charlie C. Chowder

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:46 pm
by kingconn
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:59 pm
by pwhitaker
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1938 Packard Touring Car = my 1938 BBb Recording Bell 716 York

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:59 pm
by vespa50sp
Wagoneer
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:01 am
by vespa50sp
kingconn wrote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:38 am
by tubapix
1989 Yamaha XT500 - all purpose motorcycle big enough for an intermediate but not quite professional.
1938 Ford pick-up. Not restored but made complete in running condition with used parts.
1927 Willys - unrestored sitting in an old fallen down barn under hay
1930 Ford Model A - spare parts stored in baggies since 1940 and made playable again in 2015

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:04 am
by edsel585960
The 20J would be a 1977 Lincoln Town Car, Big, beautiful and comfortable. :)

Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:02 pm
by tubaphillips
My 1291 is deff this car
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Re: What Kind of Car is Your Horn?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:43 pm
by Rick Denney
Someone asked if the Swiss made cars. The ones they make now would be appropriate analogs if Peter Hirsbrunner built a pocket tuba. In the hopes that such never occurs, let me refer back to the deeps of time:

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The Monteverdi (as in Peter Monteverdi) had a (heavy) German frame, a pretty aluminum Frua body, and a Chrysler 440 V8. With that engine, I'll analogize that one with my Hirsbrunner 193 kaiser.

The Holton? Easy:

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(Bridge to engine room! Bridge to engine room! All ahead FULL!)

The B&S? Nothing made in the Second World automotive industry got it right the way B&S got it right. There is no automotive analog.

The Yamaha 621 F tuba:

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The Datsun 2000 emerged from Japan's prior love affair with British cars, and the 621 is rather British in concept. In addition, of course, to being small, nimble, and quick. And, it must be said, without the propensity to fail at inopportune moments. But you cannot move furniture with it.

The York Master:

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Rick "noting forums in other hobby areas where posting car analogies is a bannable offense" Denney