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Zvi Lampel wrote:<BR>
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> When Rabbi Jay Marcus was the Rav of the Young Israel of Staten Island, he told us <BR>
> he ran an experiment in a theatre: He asked the people in charge to turn off the sound <BR>
> equipment for one moment, to see if he could hear the singing. He said he didn't. <BR>
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I don't think trying such an experiment in the Great Synagogue at Alexandria is a fair test, <BR>
do you? :-)<BR>
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It would be interesting to try it with sound measurement equipment, to see how much <BR>
the volume diminishes between singer and listener.<BR>
<BR> <BR>Elly<BR>
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