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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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The originals had Parmeko dual concentric drivers. I think they date
from about the early '50s. The tweeter was added after FM started and
some
home listeners were hearing things you couldn't on the LSU/10 which I
think cut off at about 10kHz which was fine for AM radio then. The amps
were either Leak or SoundSales. Cabinets were made by Lockwood who later
moved on from just being cabinet makers to produce their own designs for
recording studios, etc.

Lockwood of Harrow were actually coffin makers. They build
a range of excellent infinite baffle enclosures for Tannoy 15inch
and 12inch dual concentrics, for studio use. The Major was the
most impressive of these.

They used the same gold handles on speaker cabs and coffins:-)

Iain
The Lockwood Major 12" was the 'speaker in the first studios I worked in.
The sounded wonderful, driven by Quad IIs.

We had then at Decca, of both 12 and 15 inch types. I bought
a pair for the control room at RCA when I moved here.
I wonder what happened to them.

They needed those handles, even on castors they were hard to shift.

I heard that the Majors had poly sacks full of sand in the bottom.
I thought they were first class- we drove themn with Radfords.
I have never seen a pair on e-Bay.

Iain

S.