j_pilborough Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Plenty of concert halls have powerful lanterns(parcans I presume) recessed into holes in the usually very high ceiling of the hall. What I've often wondered is how are they usually accessed? Do you have to go above the hall and open a cover in the floor of the level above or do they lower down in some way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottie4183 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 In our theatre you either get a really high lift or do some kind of dance on the rafters about the apron and hope you don't misplace your foot and punch through the plaster. Needless to say ours don't get changed very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Cheltenham Town hall has access to the roof void to allow all work to be done on a safe working platform. Also the same way you get to the rigging points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewR Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 My old venue requires clambering around on boards over the suspended ceiling (some only 30 cms wide) to get to the house and low level lights. The new concert hall in Perth scotland has most of its house lights fitted on the underside of its lighting gantrys, so you just pull up the floor and you can remove the complete fixture. Apart from 2 of the lights, they require the construction of an 8 meter high scaff tower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_Rayne Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Crawl boards is the way to go in my place. I prefer it to standing the tower on staggered legs on the seating rake as there is no room to securly put down outriggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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