[Dixielandjazz] Rippling handclaps

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing wrote:

>I played in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City one time and they have
>an echo that will kill you.  The drums were coming back about a half second
>late.
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Robert Smith" <robert.smith at mitransport.no>
>To: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:49 PM
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Rippling handclaps
>
>
>Hello Fred
>
>The rippling effect may well be due to the velocity of sound in air, that is
>about 333 metres/sec. If the audience member is 33.3 metres away then the
>sound of the band will take a tenth of a second to reach him or her and
>another tenth of a second for the band members to hear the handclap. On fast
>dixieland numbers (m.m.=180) this will sound as though the handclap has more
>than half a beat time lag.
>
>Cheers
>
>Bob Smith
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Bob wrote: >

The drums were coming back about a half second
late.<

Perhps it was the "second coming."
Duck and run.
Don Ingle