My brother-in-law and my cousin Danny won a blue ribbon at the Kentucky State Fair in the arts and crafts category for their iPhone-o-graph. As he tells it:
"There was an iPhone stand with an attached radio horn from the 1930's, that I found in a catalog selling for $800 - $1000 and I said to myself, 'I can do that!'
So I took my idea to Cousin Danny, a very well known Blacksmith here in Louisville, KY, and I asked if would realize the project for me.
My original theme for this project was a Bourbon Still, where the iPhone would connect on the tabletop to the bottom of the copper coil. Like alcohol spirits in a still, the music would travel up the coil and transfer to the horn.
Horn technology was used largely in the early recording industry to both record songs and play them back. "
They never expected to win the category or the prize money (which is basically the entry fee returned). When we went to the fair, we had to visit the Iphone-o-graph three times, each time playing some old-timey horn music.
Even in the great hall, it sounded great. To listen to the song, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGe8G3sEZH0
And to hear a list of the various parts (old trumpet horn; Model T steering wheel; coils from a bourbon still; etc.), as well as hear a history of horn music and horn technology, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nGbiOwsSQ&feature=relmfu
Both links have the type of music recorded into a horn and played back on the iPhone-o-graph for optimum sound. (You really should click the links, both of them.)
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