September 11, 2011 09:14PM
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Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> The thought I had is that the circle was
> "restored" in the past and if just one stone is
> missing it would change any echos that might have
> been there intentionally.
Yes, that's how I understood it.
Having been inside the Stonehenge circle several times, its audio qualities for reverberation still exist. I noted this one day in April 2010 when we were visiting where I spoke to a friend, in a voice no higher than a low speaking voice (British level of spreaking, which is lower than the American style), and my husband, on the opposite end of the circle, heard every word I said (he in fact thought I was speaking to him).
Another time (in September 2010), I called out, in a slightly lounder voice, to a friend a distance away, to see something, and my voice reverberated around the circle several times. It was quite an effect, which we all noted. This acoustic quality to the stone henge was also written about in a number of news articles in 2009 (
Discovery News,
Telegraph (UK), and
Official Paleophonics website).
So, this story is interesting to me in order to understand how sound was perceived in the past (particularly when we are talking about creation of the sound of a voice in a monument which no longer exists, such as the cathedral).
Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom
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