Why there are thirty violins and one tuba, why the seating is arranged the way it is, why a conductor exists at all — and what a hundred-piece ensemble that balances itself with no faders has to teach anyone mixing anything.
The symphony orchestra is the largest acoustic balancing act anyone has ever attempted: up to a hundred players, no amplification, no faders, and a result that has to be coherent at the back of a two-thousand-seat hall. Every part of how it is built — the numbers, the seating, the writing, and the person standing at the front waving — is a solution to a problem you also have.
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