Moose Hatrack
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I'm questioning a plan developed by a lighting engineer. Our choir loft is a balcony in the back of the church. The choir is meant to be heard and not seen, so the only objective of the plan is to improve illumination of hand held music. The singers stand shoulder to shoulder and work from anything from books to stapled sheets of paper. Maybe the engineer is right and I am wrong... he did the math and prescribed track light heads aimed to make an array of pools. But each pool is lit from only one source. A few of the heads will be aimed straight down so the music below should be in pretty good light, but to reach the singers in the center, some of the heads will be aimed at an angle. For singers under the angles, I'm imagining shadows caused by thumbs and gutters and floppy pages. Am I all wet to predict that this single source plan will leave the choir frustrated? I'm thinking maybe each pool should really have two sources, roughly speaking, as much as the architecture allows, one from the left and one from the right.