On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:20:38PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 12/12/13 19:52, John Colvin wrote: > >Delay between people isn't really the problem, it's delay in hearing > >yourself that's the killer. > > Think people listening to people they hear with delay for their > musical cues, and the people they are listening to listening to > _them_ for their musical cues, and the feedback effect that might > result ... :-) You have to get used to the fact that the right time > to play may sound like the wrong time to play relative to some other > group spatially separated from you. > > By the same token, if everyone plays precisely with the conductor, > they don't actually play precisely together as far as the audience > is concerned, which is why professional orchestras tend to play a > bit behind the conductor's beat.
Ahh, so *that's* why they do that!! I've always been wondering why the orchestra always seems to be out-of-beat with the conductor, and why the conductor's beats don't seem to line up with the actual sound. Thanks!! T -- If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has numbers it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology.