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<P mce_keep="true">Tempered masonite is not new; it's been around for a long time.</P> <P mce_keep="true">In the late 30s, my oldest brother decided to add public address stuff to his radio store which he had started in 1930 (he had turned 21 and 6 months into the depression quit his job to start repairing radios; really wanted to be his own boss!). </P> <P mce_keep="true">He couldn't afford to buy PA equipment so he built the horns for the outdoor loud-speakers from tempered masonite. I still have scraps; they're thin - maybe 1/8 inch thick and thus curvable. His speakers were rectangular, flaring from the speaker enclosure to probably to a 3 foot plus square on all sides. He'd hang them from tree limbs for politcal meetings, picnics, whatever. Even during the depression, he could find ways to earn more money. </P> <P mce_keep="true"> After WWII, commercial stuff was cheap, available, and not nearly so heavy, but the demand had gone down to next to nothing. </P> <P mce_keep="true">The only thing constant is change.</P> <P mce_keep="true">Art</P>
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