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Post by lmtengs on Jul 4, 2009 14:50:55 GMT -8
what do the horns of the NorEx, NorAd, 'Wack, QoRichmond , and Klitsa sound like?
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Jul 4, 2009 15:15:51 GMT -8
what do the horns of the NorEx, NorAd, 'Wack, QoRichmond , and Klitsa sound like? NorEx whistle on inaugural voyage. Video by me.
NorAd sounds exactly like a spirit. A barely audible mooooooooooooooo...
Chilliwack's whistle. Video by our very own Ship-Rider 16.
I can't find one of the Richmond at the moment...
Klitsa is just your standard single horn. It either sounds a C or a G, I forget...
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Post by lmtengs on Jul 4, 2009 15:37:10 GMT -8
Wouldn't be amazing if the song 'I'm on a Boat' just started randomly playing over the ferry's P.A system?
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Post by Ferryman on Jul 4, 2009 16:31:37 GMT -8
I sounded the horn on the Queen of Richmond during our trip on April 1st. Skip ahead to 1:38.
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Post by lmtengs on Jul 4, 2009 16:43:46 GMT -8
why does the horn waver so much? Also, how come, about 2/3 through, a plaque shows up that says: Queen of Prince Rupert?
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Post by Ferryman on Jul 10, 2009 9:07:31 GMT -8
Kind of a funny clip found on youtube of the Victoria symphony in the Inner harbour, having a competition of horn sounds with the Coho ferry.
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Post by Curtis on Jul 10, 2009 10:40:30 GMT -8
Ha! I should have known this would show up on YouTube. Our school band had a workshop during our Victoria trip last year with Tobin Stokes, the composer of this piece (and a former Powell Riverite) he told us that this was the plan for the beginning of the song in the video.
The Coho also has one of my favorite whistles. It sounds so epic every time it is sounded.
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Post by WettCoast on Jul 13, 2009 12:39:30 GMT -8
Here is the Coho's horn recorded last Thursday, July 9th, in Victoria Harbour. The sound of this horn is distinctive and has not, to my knowledge, changed in many years, perhaps since the beginning in 1959.
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Post by FNS on Jul 13, 2009 22:57:54 GMT -8
Kind of a funny clip found on youtube of the Victoria symphony in the Inner harbour, having a competition of horn sounds with the Coho ferry. Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!!! This is simply fortissimo! Our musical moderator will agree. I love the exchanges between the Victoria Symphony and the COHO. This could only happen in Victoria. One of the very few times the COHO's captain get directed by a musical maestro! ;D As a bonus, if you listen to the ending of this piece (after the siren), you'll hear a tape recorded archive of the PRINCESS MARGUERITE's whistles. BOTH SETS, TOO! The MAGGIE had her main set of three whistles on her aft stack. That's what you hear first. Then, her single one on her fore stack. BC did an experiment and switched the locations of the whistles for a few years in the 1980s. I have heard both sets and each set sounds differently. I still keep thinking that I can still go to our waterfront and see the MAGGIE off at 0800 each morning and hearing her whistles. I feel an emptiness without her these days. If we can only rewind the clocks...
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jul 14, 2009 6:57:18 GMT -8
Kind of a funny clip found on youtube of the Victoria symphony in the Inner harbour, having a competition of horn sounds with the Coho ferry. Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!!! This is simply fortissimo! Our musical moderator will agree. I love the exchanges between the Victoria Symphony and the COHO. This could only happen in Victoria. One of the very few times the COHO's captain get directed by a musical maestro! ;D As a bonus, if you listen to the ending of this piece (after the siren), you'll hear a tape recorded archive of the PRINCESS MARGUERITE's whistles. BOTH SETS, TOO! The MAGGIE had her main set of three whistles on her aft stack. That's what you hear first. Then, her single one on her fore stack. BC did an experiment and switched the locations of the whistles for a few years in the 1980s. I have heard both sets and each set sounds differently. I still keep thinking that I can still go to our waterfront and see the MAGGIE off at 0800 each morning and hearing her whistles. I feel an emptiness without her these days. If we can only rewind the clocks... Now that is cool. We used to have the Toronto Symphony do a summer series at Ontario Place, with a circular stage that rotated. Seating was 360 degrees around with additional seating on grass hills that surrounded the forum. The season always had more unusual guests and a lighter more popular song selection. The finale of the season was always the 1812 Overture directed by Erich Kunzel on an all Tchaikovsky program. As you may or may not know, the piece was written with optional real cannons written into the score. The HMCS Haida was moored not far away as a museum and additional cannon were brought in from Fort York. So the piece builds until the climax when the Haida's guns and cannons were set off. Pretty spine tingling. I don't know if the Haida still had her whistle and she is long since gone now which is too bad. But that would have been a cool piece to add to the repertoir. The Haida's bottom was seriously corroded and needed to be dry docked for repairs. That meant digging a channel out so she could be floated out of the protected basin she was moored in. Once that was done, and repairs made at Port Weller Dry Docks, she was moved to Hamilton to the Maritime Museum there. And the Forum was replaced with the Molson Ampitheatre with much larger seating for larger scale concerts. Alas no more summer series with the symphony. However work is afoot to do a Tangleweed type festival nearby in Niagara on the Lake.
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Post by FNS on Jul 14, 2009 7:40:32 GMT -8
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!!! This is simply fortissimo! Our musical moderator will agree. I love the exchanges between the Victoria Symphony and the COHO. This could only happen in Victoria. One of the very few times the COHO's captain get directed by a musical maestro! ;D As a bonus, if you listen to the ending of this piece (after the siren), you'll hear a tape recorded archive of the PRINCESS MARGUERITE's whistles. BOTH SETS, TOO! The MAGGIE had her main set of three whistles on her aft stack. That's what you hear first. Then, her single one on her fore stack. BC did an experiment and switched the locations of the whistles for a few years in the 1980s. I have heard both sets and each set sounds differently. I still keep thinking that I can still go to our waterfront and see the MAGGIE off at 0800 each morning and hearing her whistles. I feel an emptiness without her these days. If we can only rewind the clocks... Now that is cool. We used to have the Toronto Symphony do a summer series at Ontario Place, with a circular stage that rotated. Seating was 360 degrees around with additional seating on grass hills that surrounded the forum. The season always had more unusual guests and a lighter more popular song selection. The finale of the season was always the 1812 Overture directed by Erich Kunzel on an all Tchaikovsky program. As you may or may not know, the piece was written with optional real cannons written into the score. The HMCS Haida was moored not far away as a museum and additional cannon were brought in from Fort York. So the piece builds until the climax when the Haida's guns and cannons were set off. Pretty spine tingling. I don't know if the Haida still had her whistle and she is long since gone now which is too bad. But that would have been a cool piece to add to the repertoir. The Haida's bottom was seriously corroded and needed to be dry docked for repairs. That meant digging a channel out so she could be floated out of the protected basin she was moored in. Once that was done, and repairs made at Port Weller Dry Docks, she was moved to Hamilton to the Maritime Museum there. And the Forum was replaced with the Molson Ampitheatre with much larger seating for larger scale concerts. Alas no more summer series with the symphony. However work is afoot to do a Tangleweed type festival nearby in Niagara on the Lake. Now, that's neat! Must have been a challenge for the orchestra to perform on a rotating stage. Meanwhile, there was an occurrence most of you don't know. I had been watching the PRINCESS MARGUERITE pass by a vantage point here on Puget Sound for many years. Well, one evening (probably in 1989, her last year in service), something outside of the ordinary happened. A really long whistle blast! Apparently, her boilers may have developed some excess pressure. So, I guess that the captain had no choice but to sound her whistles. And this lasted for at least a minute or so! This happened not just one time, but a few times. The same steam that was fed to her turbo-electric generators also was fed up the pipes to her whistles. This was quite amazing to hear, to say the least. I just wonder how many people who heard this called the Coast Guard?! ;D
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Post by FNS on Jul 15, 2009 12:06:36 GMT -8
One last followup on the amazing Victoria Harbour concert featuring the Victoria Symphony, the MV COHO, and audio archives of the TEV PRINCESS MARGUERITE's both sets of whistles. Here is an excerpt of a news release from the Victoria Symphony: "The world premiere of Tobin Stokes ‘The Inner Harbour Overture’ written for the 2008 Bayview Residences Victoria Symphony Splash is a unique and topical piece featuring historical and current sounds that can be heard in the harbour. These sounds are woven into the piece from both live and recorded sources. The piece starts with a live interaction from the Coho ferry, and builds to include the train, nearby church bells, the carillon and many other bells. The piece ends with the sound of the final steam whistle from the Princess Marguerite as it (she) left the harbour in the 1980's. The work honours Victoria and British Columbia's past, and plays to the vibrancy that continues today in the capital city's Inner Harbour." The rest of the story is here: www.victoriasymphonysplash.ca/concerts/news.asp?ID_ArticleIndex=257This piece should be performed every year. Very fun for us ferry fans who love ferry whistles!
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Post by Mill Bay on Jul 15, 2009 13:26:40 GMT -8
I'm just curious where the Coho's horn originated from anyway. Is it one of the famous Airchime horns, or is it from another horn-maker. It's tone is certainly a lot deeper than the horns applied to the ships built following its pattern and design.
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Post by Ferryman on Jul 20, 2009 7:17:46 GMT -8
I was a little bored this morning, so I decided to do a little experimenting.... I've noticed that over the past, the top two notes on the Queen of Burnaby only sound. But then on the Queen of New Westminster, the base notes only sound. So why not combine the two together to try and re-create that classic 3 tone horn? Here's what it sounds like.... Queen of BurnabyNew.mp3 - 0.26MBMaybe it doesn't sound quite as nice as it should. I think I'll just stick with enjoying the Queen of Nanaimos horn until she retires. Queen of Nanaimo Long Harbour.mp3 - 0.23MB
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Jul 22, 2009 18:35:03 GMT -8
That particular recording of the whistle blast in Long Harbour is absolutely incredible. The E-major chord of the Queen of Nanaimo's whistle is definitely something to behold... Oh, and great recording, Chris..! ;D
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Post by Mike C on Jul 22, 2009 18:52:23 GMT -8
Yes, thanks Chris for that exceptional recording, of what is now one of the best horns in the system. Say, has anyone heard the Celebration lately? Somebody needs to do something about THAT horn... she's still sounding the single-tone "MEEP". She was still like that as of last Friday...
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Post by beery on Jul 23, 2009 16:31:33 GMT -8
I'm sitting on my grand fathers balcony on Pender Island facing Ganges with a view of Active Pass to the North West. The Celebration is still sounding the single-tone "MEEP". The Nanaimo however sounds fantastic!
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Post by Quatchi on Jul 23, 2009 19:38:56 GMT -8
I totally forgot I had uploaded this. I know its an AMHS vessel, but if we want to compare this is the best place for it. I give you the horn of MV Columbia. Cheers,
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Post by WettCoast on Jul 25, 2009 22:10:49 GMT -8
Here is another better recording of the Coho's harn as she gives 3 blast before going astern to depart Victoria Harbour. 14 July 2009
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Post by electrotech on Jul 27, 2009 18:14:01 GMT -8
I think I'll just stick with enjoying the Queen of Nanaimo's horn until she retires. I love the Nanny's whistle Its sound coupled with the reverb/echo throughout the gulf islands is spectacular. Saturday mornings (non-stop) on a calm, clear day are probably the best conditions for the maximum experience. It just doesn't sound right in Tsawwassen though.... no echo
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 28, 2009 15:45:37 GMT -8
That particular recording of the whistle blast in Long Harbour is absolutely incredible. The E-major chord of the Queen of Nanaimo's whistle is definitely something to behold... Oh, and great recording, Chris..! ;D I awoke to the sound of the Nanny's horn this morning. It was the last day of my Salt Spring Island vacation, in a cabin on the island. The horn was at 6:45am, so the Nanny was 30 minutes late leaving. Or maybe she was tooting the horn underway, on her way to Pender?
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Post by Ferryman on Aug 10, 2009 18:17:59 GMT -8
A fresh horn recording from last night. This one is the Queen of Oak Bays #1 end, which is normally quite spectacular to listen to sometimes if sounded properly. But I guess her horns are starting to wear out, since one of the horns blocks itself out when sounding at full chord. Then to finish it off, she does a high pitch toot, and a low pitch toot, much like a ferry fart, if a ferry could fart.... Anyways.....here's the clip. Queen of Oak Bays Horseshoe Bay departure at 7:30pm last night. Queen of Oak Bay _1 end Aug09.mp3 - 0.22MBJust for the sake of posting sister horns, here's the Queen of Surreys horn in the fog. She too has the same problem of losing a horn at full chord. This is also on the #1 end. Queen of Surrey _1 end.mp3 - 0.15MB
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 4, 2009 21:31:41 GMT -8
Just found this recording for Chris! It's not a ferry per se, but it's the kind of horn he loves and probably wouldn't mind having on a ferry.
The much loved former BC Rail Nathan K5L airchime:
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Post by Canucks on Sept 4, 2009 21:36:32 GMT -8
I want one! ;D
I don't know about a ferry though, I always think of boats having deeper horns. Although a possible replacement on the spooks could be in order...
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Sept 10, 2009 0:16:04 GMT -8
Here is a better recording of the Northern Expedition's whistle.
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