Mystery horn. Any ideas?
 

My wife and I spent yesterday afternoon in Oronoco MN where they were having "Gold Rush Days". Oronoco is a small town of about 900 people that hosts this event. The whole town more or less is taken over by antique Flea Market type sellers.

Not much in the line of audio or LP's but it was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun.

Anyway, I did find this horn and felt compeled to buy it. I just thought it looked cool!

The model in the casting says 8179 but I have no idea what it would have came from. Anybody recognize this horn or ID the manufacture.

Thanks, RC

Coulda been used in a drive-in. it looks like it's been outdoors for a while.

My first impression is it's a lighthouse fog horn. The sounder was inside the building, that part bolted to the roof to direct the sound outward.

Interesting ideas guys.

When I first looked at it and the mounting flange at the top, I was thinking that some type of compression driver might have been there. After thinking about it for a while, I figured that this might not be so. The photo from the rear of it is pretty dark(sorry) but it looks like the horn was mounted to a vertical sidewall of some kind. This would not allow for a driver to be mounted at that connection I wouldn't think. I believe that the flange allowed for connection to another length of "horn" or something. That is if it even is part of a horn of some kind.

The raised number 8179 in the casting should shed some light on the manufacture I would think.

Maybe some day, I will find the rest of the Lighthouse if thats where it came from :D

RC

Hello:
The horn in question is from a inside horn phonograph,like a Victor victrola or similar type, The horn bolts to the base or the reproducer arm, and is encased by the cabinet, the front would be covered by a fancy grill.

Hey edison64, thanks!

Interesting find for me. I have no idea what to do with it other than look at it. I thought that it was cool enough to bring it home with me and thought it must be an old audio horn of some kind.

Makes for one hell of a conversation inducing paperweight :D

RC

That's a genuine Crapper TurboFlush adaptor, from the days when they didn't worry about trivial matters like gpf or quiet flushes...

"Flush-mounted"--no less.... :yes:

Our friend edison64 gets my vote.

Often the casting shown was just an intermediate part of the whole reproducer horn. The tone arm to which the soundbox was fitted had a gradual taper, and in turn fed into a piveting joint at the platter level the underside of which in turn was fitted the casting offered in the query posting. Woodwork extended the horn out further to a larger terminal aperture, one usually adorned with decorative louvres, grilles, latticework, etc, and sometimes appointed with shutter mechanisms and other odd shaped movable devices believed to alter volume and tonal response.

Shown is a pic of a typical intermediate horn casting shown in application in one of my Victor record machines--the whole sound amplification schematic being readily visible--from where soundbox is attached to where the sound comes out--with the turntable mechanism assembly removed.... Does the casting look somewhat familiar...?

Agreed...

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/att...0&d=1219719751

I don't know what you're talking about. That, my friend, is a Victorian era bidet!

For washing your bexoid--roight...? :D

It sure does to me! Now I just have to find the rest of it :D

RC