Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2012-02-02 15:28
Yes!!
This is why some rooms are perfect for chamber music, but you'd never put an orchestra in there for fear of going deaf.
Never more did I realise this than at my last ensemble placement audition, which we did in a theatre designed for speech. It did not matter what I did, mp was about the loudest I felt I could go. Ugh. I felt like I was shrinking.
I know very little about physics and acoustics, but I know that certain spaces can also promote certain pitch ranges better than others (resonating chamber?) In our concert venue here at Illinois, we call it the 'bat cave', everything rings afterwards for days, and high frequencies stick out like crazy.
Love to hear a scientific take on this!
Rachel
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