On Thu, 14 May 2009 22:26:19 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed sounds
>> better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in the good seats
>> or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned out or very faint.
>
>When you have a 25-tonne organ with almost 10,000 pipes in it... you 
>don't need electronic amplification. ;-)
>

Och! the mass pipes and drums ;)

>Heck, half the time I felt like saying to the orchestra "guys, I know 
>you've practiced this for months, but seriously... GO HOME! We can't 
>hear anything. The organ is completely drowning you lot." :-P

:-)
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Regards
     Stephen

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