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Check out this Whelen!
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:04 pm
by ver tum
Listen to what this Whelen in Ashland, MA is doing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvNhPHD8MY
I've never heard a Whelen doing Westminster Chimes before. I love the way this thing sounds!
Here's another video of this same Whelen doing a single Air Horn blast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jqi0EqtyeA
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:41 pm
by md5
Hum, just about fell out of my chair when that thing went off. I've never heard a whelen do that, ever.... sounds like it was a recording with the popping sounds at the start and end.
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:43 pm
by kanazo
This is a better sounding Chime than the EOWS...
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:45 pm
by md5
kanazo wrote:This is a better sounding Chime than the EOWS...
I was honestly expecting something near the same tones as the EOWS sirens. However, I will admit it sounds better then an EOWS, but muffled or so.
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:08 pm
by kanazo
md5 wrote:kanazo wrote:This is a better sounding Chime than the EOWS...
I was honestly expecting something near the same tones as the EOWS sirens. However, I will admit it sounds better then an EOWS, but muffled or so.
Actually this Chime sounds more realistic (ie. like a carillon) than the EOWS's more synthetic tone
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:07 am
by thunderbolt69
Sounds more realistic compared to the EOWS series. I wonder why the wouldn't use attack for fire calls instead of the air horn as posted in the review of the video.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:32 pm
by AllSafe
There's a digital tone generator for you.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:56 pm
by SirenMaster2000
Now there's something you don't hear everyday. I didn't even know they COULD do westminister.
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:26 pm
by mgear
It actually sounds like a bell.
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:36 am
by John in MA
A church in town has an electronic tolling bell of some sort, mounted in their bell tower. I don't know who made the thing other than it's probably fairly old.