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Thread #140657   Message #3234414
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
05-Oct-11 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Public concerts in 'churches' ?
Subject: RE: Public concerts in 'churches' ?
It's a matter of emphasis - so Extian which is easier than Exian, but oddly enough it's always Exmas as in Exmouth, rather than Exmouth.

Anyway - how long before They bounce this below the line do you reckon? I'm amazed it's lasted as long as it has. Maybe I'd better say something about music in churches. Okay - ahem - I'm a great one for a spot of impromtu sonic-archaelogy in medieval churches and often field-record the acoustics using various flutes, fiddles & Jew's harps. Here's a link to me playing my Karadeniz Kemence in one of my favourite old Norfolk churches; sorry about the crappy sound though - the new camera (new summer last year anyway) appears to record on am internal wax-cylinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVB9zrG9Xgs

The acoustics are amazing in there, as they are in most Norfolk churches which have resisted the modern trend to such creature comforts as carpeting. Those tiles are Elizabethan...