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
John A. Horn 1996 from the University of Virginia School of Law. John A. Horn John A. Horn is an American attorney. Currently with the law firm King & Spalding, he is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. During his 15-year tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Horn served as deputy chief of the Narcotics & Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, then Appellate Division chief and first assistant U.S. attorney under Sally Yates. Horn became acting U.S. attorney after then-President Barack Obama nominated Yates as Deputy Attorney General. When Horn's term expired in December 2015,