On-line rehearsals until this point have been Zoom only which doesn’t work as a medium for singing together because of the delays in both video and audio. Hence Zoom gatherings were limited to social events plus singing along to teach tracks whilst muted.

Jamulus is a low latency (very small delay) audio conferencing tool written by a public-spirited music enthusiast in Germany and we’ve been preparing to go live with it since mid-January. We have our own Jamulus server and over the past few weeks have been setting up members with the necessary hardware and software so we can at last sing together again in real-time without being in the same room.

Being able to do this means that when we CAN finally inhabit the same hall for a rehearsal, we shouldn’t be too rusty.