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Concert Hall Acoustics

By Dr. Yoichi Ando (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1985
ISBN
978-3-642-69812-5, 978-3-642-69810-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-69810-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5342487 bytes)
Series
Springer Series in Electrophysics 17
Edition
1
Pages
154\165
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Acoustics

Description

The acoustic quality of a concert hall has frequently posed a mysterious puzzle, namely, what physical aspects of the sound field can produce superior sound for the listener. The author has been probing for more than adecade into the subjective qualities preferred for musical and speech sounds. The result of his extensive investigations - the discovery that four and only four independent parameters contribute effectively to good acoustics - is summarized in the present book. The capability of calculating acoustical quality at any seat in a proposed concert hall is a unique and quite useful aspect of Ando's design method. Alternative architectural schemes can be compared based on the number of seats which exceeds a previously accepted minimum standard of acoustical quality.

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