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German: berauschendes Klangerlebnis

English translation: Exhilarating sound experience







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German term or phrase:berauschendes Klangerlebnis
English translation:Exhilarating sound experience
Entered by:Trudy Peters
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German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
German term or phrase: berauschendes Klangerlebnis
Speaking about an organ in a church:

1280 Pfeifen von sechs Millimeter bis drei Meter Länge sorgen für ein **berauschendes Klangerlebnis,** das während unserer Gottesdienste und Konzerte zu genießen ist.

I can't seem to come up with the right words...
Trudy Peters
United States
exhilarating sound experience
Explanation:
Or rousing, electrifying - all based on synonyms of intoxicating.
Selected response from:

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Note from asker to answerer
Exhilarating sound experience is it!

Thanks to everybody!

Trudy
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +6exhilarating sound experience
Kim Metzger
4 +3intoxicating listening experience
William Stein
4 +1sensational aural experience
jerrie
4rapturous experience in sound
Maureen Holm, J.D., LL.M.
3magnificent
Terry Gilman


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
intoxicating listening experience

Explanation:
or
entrancing voyage in sound

entrancing musical voyage

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Note added at 2003-09-23 05:02:06 (GMT)
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enchanting and incantatory are other options (funny how they\'re cognates):

an enchanting / incantatory musical experience


William Stein
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Richard Benham: or "sound experience"....
2 hrs
agree Corinna Luchtenberg: I like 'enchanting musical experience' best
5 hrs
agree shabda
6 hrs
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
exhilarating sound experience

Explanation:
Or rousing, electrifying - all based on synonyms of intoxicating.


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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 62
Note from asker to answerer
Exhilarating sound experience is it!

Thanks to everybody!

Trudy

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Rowan Morrell: "Exhilarating sound experience" is rather nice. I slightly prefer sound experience to listening experience.
2 hrs
agree writeaway: a really good solution. exhilarating works particularly well since it's in a church context. and I also think sound experience is definitely the way to go.
3 hrs
agree Steffen Walter
4 hrs
agree Lizzie
4 hrs
agree D D
5 hrs
agree David Moore
7 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sensational aural experience

Explanation:
captivating the senses...particularly the ears!
As another option

jerrie
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Nancy Arrowsmith
4 hrs
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
rapturous experience in sound

Explanation:
I suppose they'd like it to be altogether "rapture-inducing". It's clearly transportive. It's an organ, after all, so it enters the bone marrow.

Definition of: Rapturous
Rapturous (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting
rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause. ...
www.brainydictionary.com/words/ra/rapturous210159.html

Maureen Holm, J.D., LL.M.
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
magnificent

Explanation:
just to add to the thesaurus, not the same nuance as berauschend, of course

Terry Gilman
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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