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I've visited several Greek theaters over the decades and they ALL hold up remarkably on the sonic front. They are all very cleverly designed. They used several devices including Helmholz resonation to amplify human voice. In one case, in Syracusa on Sicily, they even used a natural cave in the background to help; said cave had a shape curiously similar to the human ear canal at first glance, but that's probably just a coincidence of appearance.
at the Theater at Epidaurus on a recent tour of that country. The acoustics in that place are, indeed, awesome. One in our group stood center stage and sang us a song that we could hear in every corner of the place as though she was 20 feet from us.As an aside, some of the best wine I'd ever had was in Greece. Little shops will fill liter or two-liter plastic bottles from oak casks lining the shop's shelves. Cost - barely two bucks for a liter of very good reds and whites.
And, now that I'm thinking about, those Kalamata olives ... oh man... and those real Greek salads with fresh feta are to die for.
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Evidently the presence of hundreds of absorbent bodies placed between the sound source and the supposedly all-important seats has no discernable effect!... :o)
Hello Bill
With all the responses to 'loud greeks' I thought this would get a couple or so that I might learn something from....Oh Well.
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I don't need no stinkin' study to tell me Greeks are just plain LOUDWill be surrounded by them tomorrow for Greek Easter
Will be wearing earplugs
A Greek will eat like a horse and then think he is polite because he left one last piece of Feta cheese for others.
PS: The wife and 100% of her family are 100% Greek so don't try to tell me I'm wrong
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
or does that refer to bungholing?
No one laughed louder than the Greeks sitting next to me in the audience. I saw the movie three times and then bought a VHS tape of it too.
It may be a little presumptious if you were to assume that characteristics that may apply within the US would automatically outweigh any other cultural characteristics elsewhere, either in Greece itself or of Greek communities in other countries throughout the globe?...
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(nt) = not thinking, as usual
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
So whereabouts do U live, Richard?I live in Melbourne (that's Oz, not Florida! :-)0 ) - the world's 3rd biggest Greek city!! :-)) ... after Athens and Thessalonika - and some of my best friends are Greek! :-))
Yassou!
Stereotypes are so much fun..
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It is perhaps surprising that, when your wife sought a life-partner, she chose someone of such obviously reserved, intelligently considered, and calmly perceptive qualities as yourself...
Bill.PS: One of my friends at school was a lad of strong Greek cultural heritage, and neither he, his family, nor other folk of Greek heritage I have met have displayed the characteristics you suggest as typical for that culture...
Other Greeks challenge them:
"So you're really not 100% Greek are you?"
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
...that claimed they were the loudest. I was called to his home one time because of a domestic dispute with his wife (Irish descent). I arrived to hear him tell the officer "of course we're loud, we're Italians, you know, opera singers, big lungs..." Loud families can be so much fun, to visit at any rate.
......I am thinking of some people around here who very much display the characteristics suggested.I will say no more…
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