[Special édition] When US trains play music - the chords of train horns

[@p-yan-o362]

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[@MathieuBaudoux]

Bonjour et merci ! A bientôt sur ma chaîne :-)

[@sceu25]

I thought I was the only railfanner that was also a musician. The first train horn which was a late K5HL actually also plays the high C.

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Dear Railfan, thank you for your nice message and information! I was really surprised too, when I learnt that in USA, some people tried to save the heritage of old train horns. In France, that enterprise doesn't exist at all (there's only one horn/one sound since the end of steam trains).

[@fredbergotte]

Very original video!

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Thank you! It's a concept mixing my 2 passions : music and road trips, and there is another video about music roads in Japan. A 3rd project is in the box, but it's really long to produce... compared to my usual pianos tutos you will find on my channel 🙂

[@DiegoKeaneMusic]

It would be super awesome to see a full 88-key keyboard attached to train horns installed in a train.

[@MathieuBaudoux]

I should do this in a next video, thank you for the idea 😆

[@evil1st]

I wanna put train horns on a car but tune the notes to a perfect major chord lmao that would be hilarious to hear in traffic

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Sure! And some YT videos show guys who make jokes to their friends using a super train horn on their little car, so funny :-))

[@Grayson_Da_Wolf]

My local rails use the K5LA

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Sounds great! 😀

[@ericpalacios920]

I want to hear train horns play some epic jazz chord progressions now

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Great idea ! In the 80's, there was a Mazda ad whose music was only played by Mazda car horns. So I think it might be possible! But it needs a good music arranger 🙂

[@gabetrain8834]

The best horn in my case is the K5LLA, a low and loud horn, with the notes of C-D#-F#-G#-B

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Wow crazy! I wish I could hear that sounds regularly ; but in France, it's always the same chord :-(

[@Andrewtm23]

haha, you have a good ear. When you think about it, it makes sense to use a dissonant chord to project a sound of danger :)

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Thank you for your message... you're right! See you soon on this channel for new adventures ;-)

[@chiken-nugies]

a lot of these weren't dissonant though

[@parlomur7515]

Ha ha ! Trop marrant. J’entends parler de train depuis des années avec un beau-père qui a participé à la construction du chemin de fer du Yunnan. J’imagine le son français dans l’extraordinaire chemin de fer du Yunnan.

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Génial ! Et content que cela vous ait plu. Pour ma part, je n'ai pas de proche dans le domaine ferroviaire. En revanche, lorsque j'étais petit, j'aurais voulu un petit train électrique. Avec les années, ce rêve s'est bizarrement amplifié, aujourd'hui je rêve donc d'un train géant dans ma maison, voire dans mon jardin. C'est pas du tout courant chez nous, mais une mode incroyable chez les allemands ou autrichiens fortunés, d'avoir un train de jardin ! Bref, en attendant de faire fortune, je fais le bruit du train avec mon piano :-D

[@Sheffield6688]

Nathan K5LA = beginning of “Bohemian Rhapsody”. 😁

[@MathieuBaudoux]

What an insightful comment, I had never thought about that! x-D

[@weekendpyro.]

Train horn #8 I'm going to call that the Matthew Wilder 😅

[@MathieuBaudoux]

OMG I did not think about him at all... But you're so right!! You have a very good ear! 😲Or... you're a fan of him 🤣

[@weekendpyro.]

@@MathieuBaudoux I'm pretty sure that might even be the same key, from the one time I learned how to play it on keyboard

[@MathieuBaudoux]

@@weekendpyro.Soooo funny!

[@Sircade]

2:47 i sailed away to china…

[@MathieuBaudoux]

Thank you for your message and happy you enjoyed my video. If you love this sound, I advise you to listen a song by Matthew Wilder entitled "break my stride". The intro is based on this chord! 😲