Comments on: Decibels http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/2008/05/11/decibels/ What's life like for an instrumental instructor in East Lothian? Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alan Coady http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/2008/05/11/decibels/#comment-3978 Alan Coady Sun, 11 May 2008 17:02:34 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/2008/05/11/decibels/#comment-3978 Dorothy, The sound monitoring system was fully automatic - no value judgements in place - if we'd played The Music of the Spheres too loudly it still would have gone off. The Smartboard strategy you mention sounds very effective. Perhaps if you wrote a short "how to" post, others might take up the idea (apologies if you already have and I've missed it). The Verdi sounds exciting. Excitement and danger just seem to go hand in hand. Dorothy,

The sound monitoring system was fully automatic - no value judgements in place - if we’d played The Music of the Spheres too loudly it still would have gone off. The Smartboard strategy you mention sounds very effective. Perhaps if you wrote a short “how to” post, others might take up the idea (apologies if you already have and I’ve missed it).

The Verdi sounds exciting. Excitement and danger just seem to go hand in hand.

]]> By: Dorothy http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/2008/05/11/decibels/#comment-3977 Dorothy Sun, 11 May 2008 12:15:56 +0000 http://edubuzz.org/blogs/alancoady/2008/05/11/decibels/#comment-3977 Was that system in the Johnny Cope automatic or manual, objectively measured or subjective? From time to time I use the datalogger with the noise meter displayed on the Smartboard to help children in class to monitor their own noise level. They are usually surprised at how much noise they make and are quite good at responding as a group to rises. Last night I was playing in the Verdi Requiem with about 160 singers and was sitting directly in front of the timps, the bass drum, 4 horns and 4 trumpets. There were times eg in the Dies Irae when I could hardly hear what I was playing myself, but I have to admit it was exciting! Was that system in the Johnny Cope automatic or manual, objectively measured or subjective?
From time to time I use the datalogger with the noise meter displayed on the Smartboard to help children in class to monitor their own noise level. They are usually surprised at how much noise they make and are quite good at responding as a group to rises.
Last night I was playing in the Verdi Requiem with about 160 singers and was sitting directly in front of the timps, the bass drum, 4 horns and 4 trumpets. There were times eg in the Dies Irae when I could hardly hear what I was playing myself, but I have to admit it was exciting!

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