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Vocaal Ensemble Intermezzo is een semi-professioneel
kamerkoor,
bestaande uit 22 leden.
Het eerstvolgende concert is op
Zondag 28 maart 2010, 15.00 uur, Doopsgezinde Kerk
Zaanweg 57 te Wormerveer.
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Tannoy Ltd is an English manufacturer of loudspeakers and
public-address (PA) systems. The company was founded as Tulsemere
Manufacturing Company in London in 1926.
The name Tannoy is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the
material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company.
The brand had been trademarked by 10 March 1932, on which date the Tulsemere
Manufacturing Company was formally registered as Guy R. Fountain Limited.
It became a household name as a result of supplying PA systems to the armed
forces during World War II, and to Butlins and Pontins holiday camps after
the war. Tannoy is now based in Coatbridge in Scotland, and is part of the
Danish-based TC Group. Tannoy is famous for its ‘Dual Concentric’ speaker
design which places the tweeter behind the centre of the medium or bass
driver. ‘Dual Concentric’ is a trademark although Tannoy is not the only
speaker manufacturer to design coaxial drivers. (See KEF or Cabasse.)
Tannoy’s image is particularly linked to studio monitors on the one hand and
its Prestige range of home speakers on the other. Prestige speakers use Dual
Concentric speakers and are easily recognisable by their ‘vintage’ design.
The term ‘tannoy’ in colloquial British English is used generically to mean
any public-address system, particularly those used for announcements in
public places, and although the word is a registered trademark, it has
become a genericized trademark. The company’s intellectual property
department keeps a close eye on the media and will often write to
publications who use its trade name without a capital letter or as a generic
term for PA systems, in order to preserve its trademark.
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