[Aztlan] Raindrop effect at all Mesoamerican pyramids?

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As a hugely interested observer and a professional musician, let me say something about this discussion.  It seems foolish, but it must mean something because it keeps popping up.  Does any validated scholar (I am not!) truly believe (and can any published scholar substantiate?)that the Maya designed the constructions and their placement for acoustic effects?

If they did, Maya studies seem to lack a Linda Schele of acoustics and sound.

A great deal of my doubt comes from the claps, axe chopping, etc., that I heard at my family home as a child.  All activites and building placements were random, with no acoustical consideration whatsoever, and what I heard was wonderful, completely by accident.

There is an acoustic effect everywhere.

Ed Dawson

---- donald raab <modeldon_9 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> I think these posts are missing the point.  At ALL sites there is an acoustic effect.  No matter what the supposed sound is it is the effect that is important.  Since it is replicated throughout all of the sites (even a small one like cahal Pech) it is not an accident but technological.
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> --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Sid Hollander <sid.hollander at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Sid Hollander <sid.hollander at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Raindrop effect at all Mesoamerican pyramids?
> To: "AZATLAN" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 12:28 PM
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> What's going on with this thread?
> Let's face the facts:
> *  The majority of guides stop in front of the Castillo and clap Telling
> their 30 customers that the echo is in honor of the quetzal bird whose
> feathers were very much prized by the Maya.
> * Then comes a polite pause and several or MORE folks duplicate this
> phenomena.
> * Inevitably some of these post on the internet or relate to their home town
> Gazette the miracle.
> * These sittings are then cut and pasted into Azatlan and distributed as
> proof.
> 
> Can we once and for all agree that:
> *  most any sound that is strong enough to reach a stepped structure or
> vertical columns or string will reflect a sound in some direction and may
> even amplify said sound.
> * such sounds may not be unique to mankind and that some of them may be even
> be identified with a sound that one or more of us may have come in contact
> with.  AND perhaps a Maya have come into contact with....EVEN a quetzal.
> * Once identified as being possible that if the original sound is repeated
> (i.e. in the case of clap) that it would be a miracle if it did not resemble
> (in the case of the clap) a quetzal, say Mary Martin. That, indeed, would be
> something to post or write home about.
> * That no matter how many times it is reported that a clap comes back as a
> Quetzal it does not support the premise that the Maya designed the sound
> into their structure.
> 
> Warning: There is a rumor that a guide at an undisclosed location on the
> plaza, has been experimenting with a different acoustic (and some say
> astronomical) affect.  He, in a respectful manner, has been 'mooning' and
> not too delicately passing some gas that he says reverberates back as
> thunder.  Thunder from Chak.  God help us! I can only wait and wonder if
> this too will constitute more 'proof' of something.
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> 
> 
> --
> Sid Hollander
> Merida, Yucatan
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