Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-01-27 14:22
Mark Charette said it: "...sound re-inforcement is used in many great halls without the patrons' knowledge." You bet. Unless, of course, the patrons stop to think how they can possibly hear everything so well. The Hollywood Bowl, for example, is an enormous outdoor venue where one can hear a solo flautist quite well up in the two-dollar seats, a few hundred feet from the stage. But the reinforcement is so well done, no one notices it. Any reinforcement that introduces no discernible artifacts is quite fine. The use of electricity does not always make anything sound different. Sometimes it's only louder.
What would today's instrumentation be like if someone had insisted to Leon Theremin that he only should produce acoustic sounds? And, one might wonder, who would have heard of Clara Rockmore?
Regards,
Joh
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