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Although a small number of Rickenbacker acoustics were sold in the 1950s and were seen in the hands of stars like Ricky Nelson and Sam Cooke, the company concentrated on their electric guitar and western steel guitar business from the early 1960s onward.
Because of its live acoustics and relatively small size it is particularly suited to chamber music.
The facilities have been renovated to include Payne Gallery ( renovated from the original women's gymnasium-1903 ), the College's two-level art gallery that offers several shows each year, Foy Concert Hall, an auditorium with excellent acoustics. As well as Peter Hall, a medium-sized colonial style recital hall, Hearst Hall, a small colonial style recital hall, and individual student rehearsal rooms and art studios.
The flavor of these recordings come largely from the acoustics of the small triangular basement and the atmosphere that the people who frequented there provided.
Because of its shape the Ear has extremely good acoustics, making even a small sound resonate throughout the cave.
The orchestra played in a small room with special equipment to overcome the suppressed acoustics.

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Because its main purpose was the presentation of live music, the hall needed a design focused not only on public access and exterior aesthetics, but also acoustics.
* Concert hall, a fine piece of turn-of-the-century architecture with outstanding acoustics ( Stadthalle )
Analog recordings made in natural concert hall acoustics tended to benefit from remastering ( Greenfield et al.
Following completion of work on the main auditorium in 1986, there were complaints that the famous acoustics of the hall had been diminished.
The main hall, which has been praised for its acoustics, houses a Steinway grand piano and the practice rooms, which vary in size and purpose, include instruments such as a tympani, a full-size drum kit, amplifiers and a Bösendorfer piano.
Between 1904 and 1930, Bielefeld grew, opening a railway station, a municipal theatre, and finally, the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle concert hall, renowned for its excellent acoustics.
Admired for its lively acoustics from the time of its opening, the hall is often cited as one of the best sounding classical concert venues in the world.
Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall ( designed by Yasuhisa Toyota ) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
However, for his colleague Dino Villatico of the La Repubblica, the acoustics of the new hall lacked resonance and the colours were painfully bright.
Guimard also employed some structural innovations, as in the extraordinary concert hall Humbert-de-Romans ( 1901 ), where a complex frame divides sound waves resulting in perfect acoustics, or as in the Hôtel Guimard ( 1909 ), where the ground was too narrow to have the exterior walls bear any weight, and thus the arrangement of interior spaces differ from one floor to another.
Suboptimal acoustics within Orchestra Hall have been an ongoing concern throughout its history, and have been adjusted in major overhauls of the main hall in both the 1960s and as part of the Symphony Center transformation between 1995 and 1997.
While musicians report improvements in their own experience of the acoustic from the stage perspective, some audience members report disappointment that renovations have failed to improve the acoustics of the hall, largely due to conservation imperatives which are noted by the acoustic developers.
The set-up used for the recording of The Sorcerer's Apprentice was abandoned, and it was decided to record with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which Stokowski had directed from 1912 to 1938, at the Academy of Music concert hall in Philadelphia, the orchestra's home known for its good acoustics.
Other attractions include St. Catherine's Cathedral, the State Arts Museum, a park and theater named after Maxim Gorky, the beautiful concert hall of the Krasnodar Philharmonic Society, which is considered to have some of the best acoustics in southern Russia, State Cossack Choir and the Krasnodar circus
The hall has state-of-the-art acoustics and can seat 350 people.
The new hall apparently had " excellent acoustics and hard seats " and is described as a: splendid structure, built after the latest architectural style, is nearly one hundred feet from base to spire, and contains two recitation rooms for the Law Department, two Society Halls, a Library, and a chapel whose seating capacity is about seven hundred.
The hall had drab decor and cramped seating but superb acoustics.
At the time, and subsequently, the hall was celebrated for its superb acoustics, unmatched by any other large hall in London.
* Concert hall acoustics on-line exhibition
* Russell Johnson, the acoustics designer for the concert hall
The Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired La Catedral, from 1921, is widely considered to be Barrios ' magnum opus, even winning the approval of Andrés Segovia, who said " In 1921 in Buenos Aires, I played at the hall La Argentina noted for its good acoustics for guitar, where Barrios had concertized just weeks before me.

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The importance of the method of setting the strings in vibration by means of hammers, and its bearing on the acoustics of the instrument, were recognized only when the invention of the pianoforte had become a matter of history.
Several other minor refinements were made to stethoscopes, until in the early 1960s Dr. David Littmann, a Harvard Medical School professor, created a new stethoscope that was lighter than previous models and had improved acoustics.
Its origin is in physics, acoustics and radio systems engineering, where it had been used with a meaning similar to wideband.
They were then held in Carnegie Hall, where many of the orchestra's recording sessions had been held, due to the dry acoustics of Studio 8-H.
The sandstone used in building the Babri Mosque also had resonant qualities which contributed to the unique acoustics.
Originally, the importance of the front rows for the leaders had also to do with the fact that acoustics were often unsatisfactory before microphones were introduced.
Beecham had recorded this work with the baritone Dennis Noble in 1928, but this was not issued owing to unsatisfactory acoustics.
These dampened out the unfavorable acoustics, but required massive use of electronic amplification to reach the full audience, particularly since the background noise level had risen sharply since the 1920s.
The four-tiered auditorium was oval in shape, had excellent acoustics and sight lines.
Berliner was the son of Emile Berliner, who had patented numerous inventions relating to sound and acoustics, and pioneer of helicopter development with the experimental Berliner Helicopter.
At that time, he had already developed an interest in acoustics, combining his interests for music, design and architecture.
He performed his research at UCLA, given the fact that Berkeley had no acoustics research facilities at that time.
At the time of its purchase, the theatre was run-down but had a lot of potential, being able to seat 2, 500 people and possessing both good acoustics and opulent architecture.
Mathematics played a large role in the construction of these theaters, as their designers had to be able to create acoustics in them such that the actors ' voices could be heard throughout the theater, including the very top row of seats.
The renovation included restoring acoustics to the original quality ( which had been lost during the Soviet Era ), as well as restoring the original Imperial decor of the Bolshoi.
He had to defend the acoustics, the design of the spire, the rejection of the proposed changes to the Concert Hall interiors, the BASS ticketing system of the project, as well as its delays and cost over runs.
Despite being a popular venue, the Free Trade Hall, built in the 1850s, had poor acoustics.
Additionally, the Kingdome's acoustics created problems for stadium announcers, who had to deal with significant echo issues.
Whiteford joined the company in 1948 and had distinguished himself through research in the field of musical acoustics as it relates to church music.
The Arausio is still standing today and, with its amazing structural acoustics and having had its seating reconstructed, can be seen to be a marvel of Roman architecture.
Shankland worked on neutrino experiments with Argonne National Laboratory from 1953 – 1969, and had other interests including the history of relativity and architectural acoustics.

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