anderpz
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Post by anderpz on Sept 13, 2024 0:06:17 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 13, 2024 9:35:41 GMT -8
A general comment on ferries and horns, and the popularity of them:
In my YouTube channel, ferry horn videos account for 5 of my all-time top 6 videos, in terms of number of views.
Two Horn Videos from 2015 & 2016 rise above the others, with 13,250 and 12,887 views. Those are big numbers for my channel.
It's like residuals for a songwriter, although my channel isn't a monetized one. But every month, at least one of those popular horn videos from 8 or 9 years ago is in my top-10 views for that particular month. Those old videos keep on being viewed by people.
I understand that many different people love listening to horn sounds, but it still amazes me. I'm happy that people enjoy things I did in 2015-16.
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anderpz
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Waiting impatiently for my next Ferrapy session
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Post by anderpz on Sept 13, 2024 9:39:20 GMT -8
A general comment on ferries and horns, and the popularity of them: In my YouTube channel, ferry horn videos account for 5 of my all-time top 6 videos, in terms of number of views. Two Horn Videos from 2015 & 2016 rise above the others, with 13,250 and 12,887 views. Those are big numbers for my channel. It's like residuals for a songwriter, although my channel isn't a monetized one. But every month, at least one of those popular horn videos from 8 or 9 years ago is in my top-10 views for that particular month. Those old videos keep on being viewed by people. I understand that many different people love listening to horn sounds, but it still amazes me. I'm happy that people enjoy things I did in 2015-16. I use one of your horn videos as my alarm clock sound in the morning
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 13, 2024 11:08:47 GMT -8
I use one of your horn videos as my alarm clock sound in the morning Big smile from me. Thanks
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Post by Charles on Sept 18, 2024 10:53:55 GMT -8
RE Queen of New Westminster Airchimes. - Usually when an Airchime changes tune it may be cause the re-stricter valve in slightly plugged or the internal diaphragm disc may be cracked. Replacing the diaphragm disc may be tricky, because one could risk altering the actual sound that may have been tuned in originally. I realize I'm responding to this many years later, but would you be able to explain how changing the disphragms would change the the frequency of the whistle? I have been told that the only thing that impacts tone would be the actual length of the bell and how the power chamber is designed. Wouldn't the only thing that change with replacing the diaphragms be less lost pressure within the power chamber? Also I wonder in which direction the diaphragms being damaged works, or why is goes both ways? With the Mayne Queen (one end only) and the Vanvouver (which would sometimes start in an E Dim then resolve to an Eb) and the Prince Rupert, they slid down in tone to somewhere around an Eb. With the Nanaimo, the New West, the Oak Bay, the Coquitlam, the Renaissance, the Inspiration, the Celebration now (maybe the Saanich as well, no clue how that whistle aged in a way that made it sound the way it did), they all had pitch sliding towards sounding sharp. Another odd thing to me is how much the actual horns differ in fundemental frequency, all the Coastal's (NorEx as well) and C's have exactly the same whistles as their respective class, yet they don't all sound the same. The machining tolerences must not be extreme as even when new for the Coastal's, they were not identical sounding (I can't speak for the older vessels, I wasn't alive then)...
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Post by Ollie on Sept 29, 2024 20:23:25 GMT -8
Queen of Alberni's horn at Langdale today. Unfortunately, it sounds like only two of the horns are working now, and are very out of tune!
+ some bonus Queen of Surrey soundings, also from today.
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Post by Ollie on Oct 11, 2024 16:37:17 GMT -8
Northern Expedition's new mixed Kahlenberg-Airchime horn set, 5 October 2024. They unfortunately did not sound the horns during my sailing on the NorEx, and I haven't heard any recordings of them either.
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Post by cbachmeier on Oct 21, 2024 15:09:37 GMT -8
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