Jeff's Square Dance Related Articles
These are articles related to Square Dancing that I have written. I recently re-found the original WORD files documents for the olders ones. Most of the newer ones have been copied from my archive of "Australian Callers Federation" newsletter "Callerlink", (which I was editor of for several years). The "date" information is based upon the "last save date" of the original documents. Some of the dates might not be correct, but should be close.
TILT ADAPTORS FOR LOUDSPEAKER CABINETS
From Callerlink CL207 February 2012
Some callers may remember a product called a “Hilton Tilter”? It was used to adjust the angle of tilt for speakers mounted on a speaker stand and was commonly used with speakers such as the Hilton folded horn. The concept was to use a speaker stand to raise a speaker above dancers heads, then adjust the angle of tilt so that sound is directed towards dancers at the back of the hall, (rather than into the ceiling).
Over recent years the square dance world has been dominated by “Yak Stacks” with “Yak adaptors”. The adaptors add a degree a tilt in the way the speaker is hung from the stand.
Consequently the sale of “Hilton Tilters” has fallen off to the level that they no longer appear to be available.
But as Yoda once said: “There is another”, in fact there are 3 models which have the same functionality as the old “Hilton tilter”. The 3 models are produced by a company called “König & Meyer” and they are:
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K&M 19672, an economy model which provides a fixed angle of 15 degrees (cost uncertain, probably less than $68)
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K&M 19670, a mid-range model which provides variable angle to 15 degrees (costing about $68)
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K&M 19674, similar functionality as 19670 with a locking ring mechanism (costing about $108)
They are all designed to fit speaker mounting sockets of of 35 mm diamater, (which appears to be the industry standard).
It should be noted that the original Hilton product was designed to maintain centre of gravity (COG) of the speaker. This featured is not specifically built into the “K&M models”, though the K&M 19672 looks like it may be capable of maintaining COG to some degree. As long as the “height to base diameter” ratio of speaker box is not great – as would happen with tall columns – the COG it doesn’t appear to be a problem.
They can be purchased at most musical instrument stores around Australia. And are simple to operate, so you don’t need to read the instructions (which, by the way, are only printed in German.) If you need more information they can be found as a google search under the key words of either “speaker tilters” or “Boxenschrägsteller”.