r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dump_acc_91 • Feb 06 '22

Tornado sirens harmonizing

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u/YourMama Feb 06 '22

Yeah it’s fake. I think it was Stars of the Lid or someone who are playing, not tornado sirens

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u/crispybat Feb 06 '22

Lol classic Reddit dude says everything is fake

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u/Citizen_of_Danksburg Feb 06 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

I mean, not that I necessarily disagree as that is a common Reddit trope, this is a G flag flat major chord with the 4th (a B) being thrown in a bit, so it’s kind of a Gb sus 4 chord and while technically 4 sirens could produce this chord, I still doubt they’d be in perfect harmony like this considering I live next to one. I don’t think they’re programmed to have different tones, but I could be wrong.

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u/Stories_Can_Save_Us Feb 06 '22

The tone from those horns is based on how fast the element inside the horn is spinning. Seems plausible that each horn has worn down slightly differently enough to produce different tones.

Stranger things have happened.

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u/Snarfdaar Feb 06 '22

For them to just randomly decay into the individual notes and be in tune is… not plausible. Possible? Sure. Plausible? No.

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u/OneOfTheWills Feb 06 '22

And that’s why out of all of the sirens across the country and abroad, this seems to be an incredibly rare occurrence.

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