Abstract
IN view of the examples of acoustically defective halls which abound in our towns and cities, it is the more surprising to find that the fundamental principles of architectural acoustics were clearly appreciated nearly a century ago in Groat Britain by a number of workers. Then, as now, it was realised that the two defects most frequently met with in large auditoriums are (1) echoes and (2) excess of reverberation; that is, the tendency of an arrested sound to persist unduly by multiple reflection at the boundaries, owing to their deficient absorptive properties.
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KAYE, G. The Acoustics of Buildings1. Nature 119, 603–606 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119603a0
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