"Ian Iveson" wrote



main role in returning the cone to its rest position, and the one on the
periphery is there mainly to stop that end from drooping or flopping about
sideways.


Which, of course can happen when some speakers get old and which can be
fixed to some extent by turning the speaker 180 degrees.



OTOH, doesn't a horn rather slow things down?


Oh dear, that is usually a cue for one or two here to drag the old 'it's not
a proper horn' chestnut out but no, quite the opposite.

(I have Ruarks and Tannoys on the go here and B&Ws in the loft- which may be
fetched down this afternoon!)


A long time
ago, I used to play an E-flat bass, and it took so long for a note to get
out that to play anything fast I had to block its sound out of my mind
otherwise I got confused between what I was playing and what I played a
little while ago. It also carried on playing after I stopped blowing.
That's why they are restricted to umpah, umpah. French horn players in
orchestras must be really clever to play their more complex passages ahead
of time.


No idea about any of that.