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A clear anechoic chamber
How to make a clear anechoic chamber
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The World's most reverberant space
Audio recordings of the World’s ‘longest echo’ for downloading.
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Why does the Beetham Tower hum?
Why the Beetham Tower howls in high winds
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Preserving the acoustics of derelict buildings
How two campaigns in the US are trying the preserve the acoustics of buildings, factories and storage tanks.
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Measuring the acoustics of the Bridgewater Hall
Measuring the reverberation time in a concert hall
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A submarine as a recording studio
The band Royal Forests using a submarine as a recording studio
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How the Centre Court roof changes the sound at Wimbledon
How the roof of the Centre Court at Wimbledon changes a thwack to a thwock as the racket hits the ball
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Igloo acoustics
Manchester has completely ground to a halt with heavy snowfall. Yesterday, my children and their friends built an impressive igloo from compacted snow bricks. I crawled into it this morning and was struck by the sound of my voice inside. Normally in a small room your voice gets enhanced by the sound bouncing around the…
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Pyramids and chirps
I’m starting to gather examples of curious acoustic effects – and the sound of the El Castillo pyramid in Mexico is a really good example. An article [1] on this has just appeared in an academic journal I help edit. Apparently, if you sit at the bottom of the steps you think you hear rain…