The CMI/IUPUI Speaker Project: Speaker Adoption
The CMI/IUPUI Speaker Project: Speaker Adoption It was a cold January morning when we pulled into the small storage facility that housed some of Classical Music Indy’s interesting collection of musical items. Operations Manager Tierney McGuire led us up to the smaller units that housed the focus of this semester’s project: two beautifully hand-made, wood-encased RCA prototype speakers, experiments in sound projection utilizing the entire wooden case as a medium for the sound to exit. These speakers, conceived in part probably by famous RCA designers Harry F. Olson and Jerome B. Halter, are one of a kind, with actual wood spliced together to make the perfectly round casing around the 15-inch coaxial speaker inside. Despite years of being shuffled around the city after their donation to Classical Music Indy, our department was contacted to possibly restore the speakers so that they could be used in performance. The RCA Speaker Restoration Project (name tentative, of ...