GOAL HORN
- Classification: Real Horn
- Horn Model: Kahlenberg T-3 Air Horn
- Year of Acquisition: 1991
- Stadium Location: In the rafters.
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In checking their records, Kahlenberg, the horns manufacturer has the Utica Devils Fan Club as the purchaser of the T-3 air horn (26 ¾" long projector with 142 hertz) on December 10, 1991.
"It's a T-3 air horn (serial number 21483); a brass version," Steve Koch, sales manager at Kahlenberg Industries in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, manufacturer of the horn, tells. "Oh God, it should last a lifetime; 50-70 years. The diaphragm would be the only part that could be replaced, and that we could re-machine."
Along with the folks at Kahlenberg, who have been in business since 1895 turning out quality sound signaling products for marine and industrial purposes, there are a number of regulars to ADK Bank Center that can offer much details on hockey life, before and after the horn's installation.
Two decades-plus later, and the horn requires little attention, other than twice yearly, routine cleaning.
"It's self-sufficient," says Rick Redmond, vice-president and general manager of arena operations at ADK Bank Center.
The simple black box, as Coyne labels where the button lays that when pushed sets off the horn, sits in front of Section 115, just before the first row of four seats. Beyond the plexiglass, Coyne sits with a copy of the AHL rulebook, microphone, computer screen, and a readied finger.
"There was no horn until the Devils came", offers longtime AHL off-ice official Mike Fitzgerald. "They wanted it to sound like what the Blackhawks had at Chicago Stadium."
Source: http://www.uticacomets.com/news/detail/ring-in-the-new-year-with-a-history-of-the-comets-goal-horn
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In checking their records, Kahlenberg, the horns manufacturer has the Utica Devils Fan Club as the purchaser of the T-3 air horn (26 ¾" long projector with 142 hertz) on December 10, 1991.
"It's a T-3 air horn (serial number 21483); a brass version," Steve Koch, sales manager at Kahlenberg Industries in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, manufacturer of the horn, tells. "Oh God, it should last a lifetime; 50-70 years. The diaphragm would be the only part that could be replaced, and that we could re-machine."
Along with the folks at Kahlenberg, who have been in business since 1895 turning out quality sound signaling products for marine and industrial purposes, there are a number of regulars to ADK Bank Center that can offer much details on hockey life, before and after the horn's installation.
Two decades-plus later, and the horn requires little attention, other than twice yearly, routine cleaning.
"It's self-sufficient," says Rick Redmond, vice-president and general manager of arena operations at ADK Bank Center.
The simple black box, as Coyne labels where the button lays that when pushed sets off the horn, sits in front of Section 115, just before the first row of four seats. Beyond the plexiglass, Coyne sits with a copy of the AHL rulebook, microphone, computer screen, and a readied finger.
"There was no horn until the Devils came", offers longtime AHL off-ice official Mike Fitzgerald. "They wanted it to sound like what the Blackhawks had at Chicago Stadium."
Source: http://www.uticacomets.com/news/detail/ring-in-the-new-year-with-a-history-of-the-comets-goal-horn
Info submitted by YaBoiDenny