Those are called Alpenhorns.
Seen in Ricola commercials.
Posted on 01/31/2014 8:08:06 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
I’m not sure of what it is, but my daughter and I went through several of the Youtube videos in an effort to identify the sound. I have to qualify this by saying that my family is musically inclined. Several play instruments, several sing, and my grandparents/great grandparents were instrument makers. One made violins, the other made organs and tuned pianos. A good ear is a common gift in many family members.
And no, we aren’t experts.
If YOU have a good ear, you can try it for yourself.
Some of the ‘horns’ sounded like tubas, some like trombones, having the same pitch and quality. Some sounded like bass fiddles or chellos. Additionally comparisons were made with various shofars. None of the shofars that we listened to, matched any of the sounds. The most close match we could find were those really long tube things that they have in the Alps. I forget the name of those. We looked up instrument sounds and compared them to the youtube videos.
In the end, we decided that if these videos aren’t fakes, then it sounds like God is causeing the heavenly orchestra to do some practicing :)
But really...check out those mountain horns!
I listened to a couple. They sound like a giant elevated train going around a bend — or a slowed down tape of a regular sized elevated.
It could be some of them are industrial/infrastructure sounds, but I’d bet on hoaxes, or alien invaders.
The Gods are angry so they’re trashing my shoreline.
We burn them just to stay warm. The young plump ones last a while and give of a lot of heat. The old crones go up in a puff of smoke.
/johnny
I agree. Tonight on the Houston news there was a story about a Chubacabra that a guy is trying to trap not far from my house. They showed some good pictures of it and anyone who has ever seen a coyote with mange would recognize what it was.
/johnny
It's your fault.
Let me go find the chupacabra story and post it.
When will you people learn not to say that word to me?
/johnny
it was -20 outside today up here, and I work outside with bare hands at that temperature, it’s not bad at all. I just wore flame retardant coveralls, a long sleeve shirt with a thermal shirt as my bottom layer, jogging pants and redwing boots lol.
Good I want to read it.
Lewis and Clark reported hearing “Booms” like cannon fire in their journals while in the Rocky Mountains.
There you did it... I gotta drag out the chupacabra story... I should save this on the hard disk so I don’t have to type it every time, but it sometimes it gets better....
I was running a crew cutting pines for firewood at about 7K ft in northern New Mexico mountains, and we started early. Frijoles y kava was way before sunup. By military tactical twilight and before sunrise, we were on the mountain, cutting down trees, bucking logs, singing Monty Python songs...
A mist filled the hollow that we were working in, as it was early fall.
The elks were.... sexually frustrated....
Did I mention that my crew didn’t speak a word of english?
We took a break to sharpen blades, gas up, etc... and in the distance... an elk, a lonely, horny elk, bugled...
I cocked my head to one side as if to listen better, nodded my head sagely, and said “Chupacabra”.
We were scheduled to be off the mountain by 1500. We had all the wood cut and loaded by 1100.
Those guys never worked for me again.
/johnny
she should try reading the bible sometime heh.
I suppose at -20C or F, that would be a bad idea...
/johnny
/johnny
Even Everett is supposed to go down to 19 at night next week.
I heard LMH on Coast to Coast last night with this. The recording I heard sounded like it could have natural explanations, having
to do with temperature changes, etc.
I am a great one for finding natural, obvious answers for things(Occams razor) For example, a few weeks ago I was in Downtown Seattle a d thought I heard black helicopters. But it turned out it was just Seahawks fans.
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