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Estonian Song Festival

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Re: Estonian Song Festival

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Post by lb1lf »

gstipi wrote: post #2

Every five years, up to 60,000 Estonians meet for Laulupidu to sing songs together. The next iteration will take in July 2025 ( https://2023.laulupidu.ee/en/registraton-to-song-celebration... ) See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdOiCa0-4o for a beautiful excerpt of the 2019 event.

And, just in case anyone wondered - 60,000 Estonians is just shy of 5% of the population.

(Assuming that Estonian-speaking Estonians are over-represented at this event, and given that almost a quarter of Estonia's population are ethnic Russians, this event probably gathers some 6-7% of the Estonian-speaking population!)

Re: Estonian Song Festival

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Post by Zanfa »

lb1lf wrote: post #4
gstipi wrote: post #2

Every five years, up to 60,000 Estonians meet for Laulupidu to sing songs together. The next iteration will take in July 2025 ( https://2023.laulupidu.ee/en/registraton-to-song-celebration... ) See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTdOiCa0-4o for a beautiful excerpt of the 2019 event.

And, just in case anyone wondered - 60,000 Estonians is just shy of 5% of the population. (Assuming that Estonian-speaking Estonians are over-represented at this event, and given that almost a quarter of Estonia's population are ethnic Russians, this event probably gathers some 6-7% of the Estonian-speaking population!)

I think the 60k includes just the visitors, not the choirs and dancers, which is around another 30k.

Re: Estonian Song Festival

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Post by 0x0203 »

One of the things I always wonder about with these massive choirs with 10-30 thousand singers is how do you synchronize everyone so that it doesn't sound like a muddled mess? With such a large group the audio delays due to the speed of sound from the front to back or side to side of the choir start to become non-negligible.
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