Vehicle horn of vehicle horns are used by percussionists as sound effects, or even melodically, in musical works. For example, George Gershwin's 1928 orchestral work "An American in Paris" calls for the use of 4 taxi horns. György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" features two "Car Horn Preludes" scored for 12 bulb horns, each one tuned to a specific pitch. Klaxon is a trademark for a brand of electromechanical horn or alerting device. Mainly used on cars, trains and ships, Klaxon horns produce an easily identifiable sound, often transcribed onomatopoeiacally in English as "ahoooga." Like most mechanical horns, the klaxon has largely
A Loud Silence A Loud Silence A Loud Silence is the first studio album by the Portuguese singer-songwriter and producer Renato Freitas, under the pseudonym Lizzy's Husband. It was recorded during 2013. Two singles were released from the album, "Petrichor" and "A Place for the Ghosts", with a music video for the first produced by Freitas, premiering on the national TV channel, RTP, music show "Poplusa". The album was released digitally under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)). In December 2015, Bandcom created an online poll, "Best Portuguese Album of the Year", in which the album was included and