ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS 



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in pitch from Cj 64 to Cj 4096 (8). As this extension was of 

 importance chiefly in connection with music and as he had 

 determined that his experiments should always be guided by 

 practical considerations, he first conducted an investigation on 

 the accuracy of musical taste. 



At the recently built New England Conservatory of Music 

 were a number of small rooms with plain wooden furniture 

 which were to be used for practising. Under Sabine's direction 

 a committee of musical experts listened to piano music in 

 each of these rooms in turn and in each case cushions were intro- 

 duced until the critics expressed themselves satisfied with the 

 acoustics. I 



The times of reverberation were measured afterwards in the 

 manner already described, and the results are set forth in the 

 following table : 



