[Dixielandjazz] Sound men...speaking of...

[David Richoux]

If Edison wasn't there to record it did it even happen?

Dave Richoux

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from http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gtsburgaddress.htm

A crowd of fifteen to twenty thousand crowded around the speakers'  
platform. Everett spoke first, holding the audience spell-bound for  
almost two hours. Lincoln then rose and delivered his address in less  
than two minutes. The audience's response was muted, probably due to  
surprise at the brevity of the speech. Seeing his audience's  
reaction, Lincoln remarked to a companion: "It is a flat failure and  
the people are disappointed." However, the following day, Everett  
wrote the President praising his speech and pronouncing it one of the  
best he had heard. As the words Lincoln spoke that day were spread by  
the newspapers, public reaction concurred and Lincoln's few sentences  
have come to be regarded as one the best speeches in American history.

  (diaries and letters of John Hay (1939); Kunhardt, Phillip, B.  
Lincoln at Gettysburg (1983)

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On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:07 PM, Bob Romans wrote:

> Hi Listmates...curious me in Lodi...
>
> I want to know who in hell the sound man was for Lincoln's  
> Gettysburg address? What mikes was he using? What speakers, etc!  
> The ceremony was outside, fer gawd's sake! And everyone heard it!
>
> What in hell happened to the art of audiences just listening?
>
> Approximately 15,000 people are estimated to have attended the  
> ceremony, including the sitting governors of six of the 24 Union  
> states: Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania, Augustus Bradford of  
> Maryland, Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Horatio Seymour of New York,  
> Joel Parker of New Jersey, and David Tod of Ohio.[10]
>
> Warm regards,
> Bob Romans,
> 1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
> Lodi, Calif. 95242
> Ph 209-747-1148
> www.cellblockseven2002.net
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