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I also took care that, by means of the complete reconstruction of the hall, I should obtain good acoustic conditions for the orchestra, which I had arranged according to quite a new system of my own.
The old Senate Chamber, now used by the Supreme Court, was admirably adapted for the deliberations of the forty-eight gentlemen who composed the upper house of the Nineteenth Congress. Modeled after the theatres of ancient Greece, it possessed excellent acoustic properties, and there was ample accommodation in the galleries for the few strangers who then visited Washington.
"Thayer can't complain of the acoustic effects of the place." "When have you seen him?" "Just before dinner. He was in superb voice then, and a fairly good mood." "Isn't he always?" she questioned idly, as she nodded to an acquaintance in the next row of chairs. "Not always. As a rule, he is the best-tempered fellow in the world.
"Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps," he girds at its acoustic soul until it finds responsive voice and grunts or babbles or bellows in consonance with his. Only when the vibrations subdued or lusty correspond with the vocal content of the barrel are the responses sensitive and in accord.
Above the sound of busy wings the distant sea sang its low dirge. It was a living perspective of sound. The least rustle near at hand overpowered it, and yet it was always there an unceasing throb to be felt as much as heard. Some acoustic formation of the land carried the noise, for the sea was eight miles away. It was very peaceful; for utter stillness is not peace.
Acoustic pictures were returned from the darkened scenery; they could hear where the tracts of heather began and ended; where the furze was growing stalky and tall; where it had been recently cut; in what direction the fir-clump lay, and how near was the pit in which the hollies grew; for these differing features had their voices no less than their shapes and colours.
At three o'clock, by which time the dawn was breaking, the "C.O." did appear on the bridge. "Well, Sub?" he asked. "What d'you think of station keeping at night?" "Quite easy, sir," said that young officer blandly, quite unaware of the acoustic properties of the charthouse. "As easy as falling off a log." "Did you have any difficulty in seeing the next ahead?" "Not much, sir.
The simplest acoustic instrument ever invented is the megaphone, which latter is a Greek word meaning great sound. It is a very primitive device and our Indians made it out of birch-bark before Columbus discovered America.
This develops into a mania with you. Don't you see that this wild music is a natural acoustic phenomenon? Each of the reeds around us and there are thousands on this island contains a natural musical instrument; and the musician, Wind, comes here daily to try his art after nightfall especially during the last quarter of the moon." "The wind!" murmured the colonel. "Oh, yes!
Very imposing, too, is the vast Banqueting Hall, from whose platform, to test the acoustic effect of the rows of wires stretched six inches apart under the ceiling to break the sound, I addressed vacancy. The panels of this hall still await their artists.
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