The professionals at The Hollywood Edge have gone to live performances, set up the mics in various parts of the audience and have digitally recorded extensive LIVE vocal and crowd reactions. Perfect for commercials and subtle sitcom sound reinforcement, Laughs, Cheers, and Applause can give you every conceivable combination of reactions to work with. It's worth noting that the ancient Romans also demonstrated their approval of public performance with finger-snapping and that modern Canadian concertgoers signal delight by screeching at the organ-grinder's monkey.Laughs, Cheers & Applause Sound Effects - At first you hear a few snickers, then chuckles, and finally a surge of uncontrollable laughter. 'You see it at the end of a lot of plays by Plautus and Terence, where they have this word plaudite, which is an imperative 'applause,' 'clap.''

But the motion of clapping, I think that's a learned behavior.'Īs to clapping's association with audience approval, Jay Fisher, a classics professor at Yale University, dates the custom to at least the third century B.C. What I've seen babies do spontaneously, from excitement, is clasp their hands together. Yvette Blanchard, a pediatric physical therapist, and researcher at the University of Hartford says that human clappers are made, not born. It's not to applaud something it's because they're frightened or want to call attention to food. But you don't find primates doing it unless they've been taught to do it.

Cavemen and human ancestors - we don't know whether they clapped hands or not. We don't know how far back it goes, not without a time machine.

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