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What Was It??

01/20/2012 10:04 PM
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01/20/2012 10:28 PM

Rain makers ?

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01/20/2012 10:31 PM

Is it gigantic in size?

Some kind of rally

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01/21/2012 12:31 PM

Yeah, ther're purty big....

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01/20/2012 10:36 PM

Readers of Tony Hillerman's novels know what it is. It's *

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01/20/2012 11:19 PM

Trombones for the Prodigal Son.

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01/21/2012 12:08 AM

Audio aircraft spotters

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01/21/2012 4:26 AM

Damn you Edignan.
But with a swish I shal don my Pedantman coat and say aha it's an Audio aircraft locator, as a 'spotter' implies a visual device (nyah nyah etc)...although I s'pose you've still gotta spott the damn thing.
Oh I'm too old for this, <removes cape and gets nice cup of tea>.
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01/21/2012 9:50 AM

Looks like this?

Link to device in use (cannot paste because we don't pinch artists work and it's flash and I can't)

Lemme pour you a tea, What's your poison, hardly matters as I only keep Lapsang Souchong in the house

There now, I'll light the fire and you can relax a bit

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01/22/2012 12:24 AM

You're correct. The Japanese emperor Hirohito is the nearest to the camera.

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01/23/2012 2:00 PM

Yup, commonly known as Japanese War Tuba.

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01/21/2012 12:34 AM

Instruments for the Oompah band.

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01/21/2012 4:58 AM

Umm aircraft audio? how about sirens to disperse birds from around an airstrip when a plane is taking off or landing.

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01/21/2012 8:36 AM

Sousa's first attempt at putting together a marching band on the cheap!

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01/21/2012 9:24 AM

T3 sound locator 1927
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01/21/2012 11:18 AM

Stalin's orchestra.
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01/21/2012 11:22 AM
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01/21/2012 11:40 AM

Exhaust headers.......

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01/21/2012 12:24 PM

Device for assuring Alien invaders that we are peaceful, by blowing huge numbers of soap bubbles at them as they land. Groovy baby...
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01/21/2012 12:42 PM

Snow makers?
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01/21/2012 1:13 PM

It's the horn section of a Steampunk orchestra...

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01/21/2012 2:23 PM

It's for knocking down enemy aircraft. You get a dzen people all shouting BANG simultaneously and the sound pressure wave just drops the plane like a stone.

Remember the episode in the Simpsons where Bart is in the police station and gets all their loud hailers and stacks 'em in series? (One of my fave bits)
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01/21/2012 2:55 PM

It was used to generate the Tsunami of Sound in the battle against Daikaiju!!! HEI!

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01/21/2012 5:10 PM

76 trombones in the BIG parade

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01/21/2012 11:29 PM

Someone working to bring the world of Dr. Seuss to life.

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01/22/2012 4:05 AM

Handy portable versions of the 'listening ears'.

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01/22/2012 9:50 AM

Early attempt at rain powered vehicles?

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01/22/2012 2:10 PM

From Gulliver Travels - Land of Giants.

Musicians placed their instruments on portable carts to push/pull them to another location in town for the next performance.

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01/23/2012 12:48 AM

Keizer Wilhelm's Personal automaton fanfare band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFj_vq3cwk

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01/23/2012 3:43 AM

It's the prototype KrisDelTM "Autoband" march tune generation system, developed as a cost-cutting device for use in military tattoos. Digital Audio Broadcasting has made such equipment largely redundant these days, and there is a rumour that the Science Museum is interested in obtaining one. Such historical developments shouldn't go unrecorded, perhaps?

The other possibility is that it's the latest sound system for PlbMak's Ford Capri. Time moves m o r e s l o w l y i n E a s t A n g l i a....

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01/23/2012 9:41 AM

Looks like this may use sound to estimate altitude of flying objects.

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01/23/2012 12:07 PM

Old time "brown note generators?"

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For similar phrases, see Brown note (disambiguation).

The brown note is a theoretical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance.

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01/23/2012 4:54 PM

I'd say these probably did generate a few 'Brown Notes'....haha

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01/23/2012 4:46 PM

Early developent of MS Windows (trans) Portable Sound Blaster.

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01/26/2012 7:55 PM

Brown Note generators!

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01/27/2012 2:31 PM

Jing Tinglers

Flu Floopers

Tar Tinkers

Who Hoovers

Gar Ginkers

Trum Tupers

Slu Slumkers

Blum Bloopers

Who Wompers

Who Carnio Flunx

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