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Re: Choir acoustics





On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Swanson, Rick wrote:

Can anyone recommend ways to improve the acoustics for a choir in a
church with a limited budget.

The chapel seats about 400 and they think that the sound is "dead".
Some of the members were told to "ask a physics teacher". So they did.

What do musically savvy people in the *audience* think of the sound?
Sometimes the sound getting back to the stage is unsatisfactory, though
that in the autitorium is ok. If that's the case, it can affect the
performers and the performance, and may be curable with a suitably placed
ceiling reflector to bounce some sound back to the stage area.

If the audience area really has 'dead' sound, then something (walls,
ceiling, carpet, audience) is absorbing too much. A somewhat more
reflective environment would be in order.

Tom Rossing would be a good person to ask. Anyone know his e-mail address?
He 'wrote the book' on sound.

- Donald

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