What makes a choir sound bigger than one voice?
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What makes a choir sound bigger than one voice?
One voice singing alone can fill a room with sound. But when a choir sings together — twenty, fifty, a hundred voices all at once — the music suddenly feels enormous, like it's pushing against the walls. What makes that happen?
Start with what one voice actually does. When you sing, your vocal cords vibrate — they flap back and forth hundreds of times per second, pushing little puffs of air into the room. Those puffs travel outward as a sound wave, like ripples spreading across a pond after you toss in a stone.
