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16″ Squeeze Horn Finds Fame In ‘Rat City Brass’

John Runs This Place — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:34:44 +0000

Brad from Rat City Brass sent us a picture of his way-cool percussion rack featuring one of our 16″ squeeze horns! RCB plays the music of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass! Thanks Brad!
Check them out at http://www.facebook.com/Rat.City.Brass

Headed For The Squonk Opera!

John Runs This Place — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000

Yesterday I sent a very excited horn off to his new home at the Squonk Opera. Check it out!

A Bulb For Carlisle!

John Runs This Place — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:57:22 +0000

Carlisle needed a bulb for Ye Olde Squeezehorn. We don’t actually carry bulbs separately, but I had a couple from horns that were damaged in shipping, and was happy to help him out. Thanks for the photo CK!

Clowning Around

John Runs This Place — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:48:35 +0000

Steve ‘Petals’ Watson was kind enough to send along a couple of shots of Petals and the Squeeze Horns.

Steve 'Petals' Watson

Attaching Your Squeeze Horn

John Runs This Place — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:36:41 +0000

Attaching your squeeze horn to your bike can be problematic. The attaching brackets I include in your order work well for the 7″ and CAN be used to mount the larger horns, but honestly, the design isn’t right for all horns. The problem is that the horn part of the attaching bracket is designed to go around your horn’s smaller tube, and that joint is probably the weakest link in the horn’s construction. I am working with the manufacturers to design a more elegant bracket, but in the meantime I’ll be posting some of my own experiments.

The setup I have pictured here, while not the nicest to look at, has proven to be very sturdy. It’s a plastic bicycle handle bar clamp from a Dollar store bike light wrapped around the main squeeze horn tube. And a #0 Conduit Hanger (with speed thread, meaning you don’t even need the extra nut shown) from Home Depot, which I painted black.

On another bike I’m using a butterfly nut to attach the clamp to the conduit hanger, which makes it easier to remove as well.

Probably some of you are much handier in the garage than I am. So I look forward to hearing and seeing how you attach your horn to your bike, car, boat or what have you.

Attaching Your Squeeze Horn

Squeeze Horns on the Playa!

John Runs This Place — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:26:34 +0000

I set some friends up with squeeze horns for their trip to Burning Man 2011. Some photos coming back now. Will add more as they come available.

Squeeze Horns on the Playa 2011 Photo Blanka Buic

Shortly after arrival.

Sqeeze Horns on the Playa Photo Blanka Buic

Getting into the swing of things now.

Squeeze Horns on the Playa Photo Blanka Buic

Mike Bruns’ 8 Foot Cruiser!

John Runs This Place — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:22:18 +0000

How cool is this! Makes sense that Mike wanted the 16″ squeeze horn for his bike. Check it out!
Thanks for the photo Mike Bruns of Roanoke IN.

Mike B's 8 foot cruiser bike on the back of his Jeep.

Cleaning Your Squeeze Horn

John Runs This Place — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:38:13 +0000

Partly as an experiment I’ve left one of my squeeze horns on my bike for over a year. We don’t get snow here, but some rain, lots of fog, and salt air have taken their toll. You’ll also notice numerous dings and a massive dent from an accident that bent the horn in half. Fortunately it bent right back without breaking.

Before

Before. This is the 16" Covered Bell horn.

Shake well. Apply a small quantity of Brasso with a clean soft cloth rubbing lightly to loosen badly discolored areas. Let dry and then polish with a dry cloth.

Here the Brasso is drying on the horn.

Starting to polish.

Polishing.

Comparing polished horn to new.

Old and new.

The lesson here is simple. If you want to keep your squeeze horn shiny, you’ll have to keep it indoors. On the other hand, a year of outdoor use, a little polish, and my squeeze horn looks like an antique and is working just fine.

Reader KP Sends Some Great Pics of a Very Large Horn!

John Runs This Place — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:29:28 +0000

Reader KP writes:

Hi John,

Found your website content very good and exciting! I had been to a vintage car rally in Pune, India and found an ample-sized horn attached to a 1969 Italian Piaggio “autorickshaw” (a 3-wheeler for public transport). I’m not sure about its size, but it must be somewhere around 24-30 inches long. I have attached a few pics of the vehicle with the horn. The sound was thunderous and kids enjoyed squeezing it. The owner said he had to import the horn from UK. I tried searching online but couldnt find any of this giant size.

Keep up the good work!

Regards

KP

Here’s the pics of an awesome horn. Don’t you want to hear it?

Kids Love Squeeze Horns

Piagio Vespa Auto Rickshaw

KP also had suggestions for the site especially around how I can accommodate contributions. I mentioned I’m in the process of building a Facebook page and hopefully will have something up in the next week or so. In the meantime please feel free to leave a comment or send me an email john[AT]squeezehorns.com

Thanks KP! Much appreciated.

Squeeze, or Bulb Car Horns!

John Runs This Place — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:13:58 +0000

Earliest car horns were all bulb horns.

Bulb Car Horn

From the same book came this picture of a reed. It’s very similar to those in the squeeze horns I sell, but with a screw to adjust tension of the reed.
I just did some experimenting with a reed I have and discovered that by pulling the top ‘tongue’ of the reed away from the main portion, ie. increasing the gap, I could lower the tone. This was done by bending the reed, which is a bit dangerous considering it’s impossible to bend it back. At some point I’ll do some serious experiments with adjusting the pitch and volume, and I think adding an adjusting screw could work!

Bulb Car Horn Reed