would anybody like this idea, take out the Horn-Buzzer alarm

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I would rather having lights used as an alarm than noise. A type of light that alerts you, but doesn't affect people with Epilepsy.

At least lights don't make me jump like sudden noises do. When I was at school I always wished there wasn't any bells to keep going off after every lesson and break times. I wished there were lights instead, maybe what lit the room up red or green, maybe green for just reminders of the next lesson, and red for fire alarms. The children can still notice it but it will not affect anyone with Epilepsy, and people with sensory issues can be more relaxed too.

Just my opinion.

Yeah. Alarms are meant to be alarming.

Something like that would be good. In fact, fire stations (at least in Los Angeles), have alarms which are coded tones in the pleasant range; similar to telephone touch tones. Not too loud, but plenty audible by anyone but the 100% hearing-impaired. And there could be a light-based alarm which is not a strobe. Simply having the room lights go from bright to dim, once or twice, accompanied by a something like a red light above the exit doors.

Charles

I wouldn't mind a voice/strobe. I hated the alarms in elementary school - they were early 1990s Simplex units that had one of those LOUD buzzer alarms that you could probably hear for a 1/2 mile. Scared me to death. Covered my ears up to five minutes before the drills!

Anyways, I wouldn't mind a voice announcement that says "At this time, staff and students, we are conducting a fire alarm evacuation in this building. Please evacuate using the nearest exit and do not use elevators," followed by chimes, OR a quieter code-3 alarm. No continuous alarms like back in elementary school for me!
Special Ed rooms might just use the voice announcement alarms, no strobes. I don't mind flashing strobes.

How about a prerecorded piece of classical music and a male/female voice saying to get out of the building safely.

I like that. How about Beethoven's 5th symphony with a deep male voice instructing to get out of the building.

I think Chopin's Raindrop Prelude (with voice of any kind) might be a better choice - it would at least fit when the fire sprinkling system is necessary, hehehe.

Well Chopins Raindrop Prelude is calming and does compliment the sprinkler systems, but I would prefer to exit a burning building with the drama of Beethoven's 5th.

In the Hall of the Mountain King from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg? It almost makes you feel like you're up to mischief even when you're not.

Nah, that's better for sneaking out of the building. No time to be sneaky if there's a fire.