‘Spinal Tap’-size Stonehenge reveals how the ancient monument really sounded – Live Science

The huge standing stones in the outer circle of Stonehenge
acted as an amplifier and gave reverberation to enhance speech and music in ceremonies held thousands of years before modern acoustics emerged, according to new research.
The dramatic sound effects including the repeating echo of reverberation would have been unfamiliar to most of the people who gathered there, the researchers said, although a few might have experienced similar effects inside caves and in canyons.
The findings help e…

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