Posted 3 years ago
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WHAT??? I CAN'T HEAR YOU??
Anybody saying that probably isn't using these, my trio of (the big) UNIVERSITY LOUDSPEAKERS. There's nothing too subtle about them, they're nearly 26" across and the center cone is over 17" deep. They're actually not all that heavy, the horns themselves are made of aluminum so the only weight in 'em is the copper/iron within the unscrewable driver elements -- the small roundish part visible on one in pic1 center left (other two loose on the ground) which attaches to the ring in pic3 on each horn. That part is where the sound is actually produced, the rest is literally nothing but horn. (a 'folded horn' of sorts, technically speaking)
These three (and one other) used to live in the tower of First Baptist Church of Abilene, TX, where they broadcast the hour with Westminster Chime and etc. from sometime in the 1950's until probably sometime in the early 1990's, when I personally recovered them along with their by then replaced/disused SCHULMERICH electronic carillon system a number of years ago. The 4th had the bad fortune to have been abandoned facing directly UP instead of out the sides like the others, thus when found it had already passed any point of return in becoming a huge pigeon nest instead...I saved it too anyway but shouldn't have bothered...it then became a flower planter until it rotted further away. In pic (2 &) 4 the remaining SCHULMERICH CARILLONS name and part number can be seen.
Whatever will I ever DO with these things you might ask? Well, OF COURSE -- if/when I ever get the rest of that carillon up and running again (or my other, smaller, older one) I'll mount them on my roof, so my house can chime the hour and play the occasional tune for my neighborhood...? Naturally...??? <LOLOL>
[oh, and at the beginning I mentioned these are my "big" ones...I have a pair of smaller ones too, they're probably only about 2' across...?]