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I get super annoyed when some announcer is droning on and on while the warbirds fly.
I'm not there to listen to music, I want to hear the aircraft. I can't stand even videos with music.
Best airshow I was at many years ago some of the speakers were blown down much to my pleasure, and how many airshows have the speakers on the flihjtline which spoils the view
There is a group of people in the UK who carry round a bunch of little cards advising that the music playing at the place they went to, be it a shop or mall, or whatever was inappropriate and ruined the ambience. I can't emember what they call themselves - an old girlfriend's mother was one. That you, Park?
Music enriches the soul. It lends a certain atmosphere to an environment; at the museum we used to put appropriate music on because without it, you had hangars full of aeroplanes, which was a bit eerie for people when all they could hear was their own footsteps echoing off the floor.
In my experience, I've found that airshow music helps create an ambience, because, as most of you pointed out, you don't want to hear a commentator droning on all day, not only that, but it makes up for 'dead air', which can be equally dull if there is nothing going on between flying displays.
I remember during one memorial airshow in the UK I went to, I can't remember what anniversary, but they had the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spit, Hurri and Lanc doing a display with Elgar's 'Nimrod' playing. I tell ya, there weren't too many people without a lump in their throats after that.
Hi Ken, I think you might have misunderstood my intent.I was merely suggesting you might be one of these people who leave cards in shops stating that you don't like the piped music. I should have written "are you one of these people?" I was having a laugh at your expense; sorry
I doubt we know each other, unless you are Ken Ellis, (former) editor of Flypast magazine? I suspect not...