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Collected papers on acoustics / by Wallace Clement Sabine ; with a new introduction by Frederick V. Hunt.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA2800 .S3 1964
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabine, Wallace Clement, 1868-1919.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural acoustics.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' labels (Provenance).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 279 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, c1964.
- Contents:
- Reverberation
- The accuracy of musical taste in regard to architectural acoustics
- Melody and the origin of the musical scale
- Effects of air currents and of temperature
- Sense of loudness
- The correction of acoustical difficulties
- Theatre acoustics
- Building material and musical pitch
- Architectural acoustics
- The insulation of sound
- Whispering galleries.
- Notes:
- "Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published...in 1922."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Henry J. Magaziner.
- Athenaeum copy: Booksellers' label on flyleaf: "Selected professional reference. Technical Guide Publications, 135 N.E. 54th St., Miami, Florida."
- OCLC:
- 513961
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