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

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I didn't ask that - that snip (speakers etc) was from someone else's e-mail.

My point was that unless you had an acoustically perfect place which that 
spot at Gettysburg is not, it's almost impossible to cover that many people 
even crowded together without absolute silence and extremely powerful 
speakers.  It could be done in an acoustically perfect amphitheatre with 
trained speakers and almost dead silence.  It's also true that low sounds 
travel further than high sounds.  Lincoln's voice was high pitched which 
might work against him.

On the plus side it was a somber occasion and the people might have been 
more reverent than they might have been in another place and time.

On the minus side you have a crowd all bunched together and being bored to 
tears with a two hour oration might not have been as attentive as they 
should.

I would think the people within a hundred feet or so would hear very well 
and possibly out to 300 feet.  Now I don't know how many people you can 
crowd into a semi circle 300 feet in radius but I'm sure it's a lot but to 
say that 15,000 people heard that speech is IMHO stretching it more than a 
bit.

Imagine 15000 people in a place without one porta potty - Awesome

I guess that we will never know since none of us was there and there are no 
recordings and first person comments were few.
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sound men...speaking of...


> Larry Walton asks:
>
>> 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!......
> (snip)
>
> How do we know that everyone of the 15,000 heard it?  Especially since 
> Lincoln was reported to have a somewhat high, nasally voice.
>
> --Bob Ringwald
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