After the first two or three words, I didn't mind at all, and found myself discussing acoustics, the difficulty of playing any well-known part without costumes, scenery, etc., the inconvenience of having the public so near, quite easily.

They played just as well at one end of a drawing-room, with a rampe of flowers only separating them from the public, as in their own theatre with all the help of scenery, acoustics, and distance.

Many of the rocks are distinguished for their marked and lengthened echoes, and the structure, which in acoustics reflects sounds to the ear, from a point from whence they did not come, reflects images on the eye, from a place very different from where the objects stood which produced them.

Behind each is a small chamber, hollowed most scientifically, quite a little temple of acoustics.

The great Diderot, in a book called "The Nephew of Rameau," referred caustically to Rameau's experiments and theories in acoustics, and added: "He is a philosopher in his way; he thinks only of himself, and the rest of the universe is as the puff of a bellows.

When she really opened up at the performance, the unfamiliar acoustics of the place frightened her into forcing, with the result that she was constantly singing sharp.

'It's a question of the acoustics, that's what it is,' observed a man near me, and a woman replied: 'Oh, I see!' When Diaz returned and seated himself to play the Berceuse, I saw that he could look at me without turning his head.

The acoustics of the great auditorium are perfect.

It was difficult to hear at best, the acoustics were so bad.

The acoustics of the small town are faultless, and the activities of this spendthrift had been noised abroad.

Her mother's business of plain and fancy dressmaking did not a little to make the acoustics of Newbern superior.

Earlier still, he had heard a hoot-owl, and encountered through it, his first realization of phantom horrors; he knew then there was an Unseen, and nether acoustics; here was a key to ghostly doors.

"The acoustics of this place seem very bad.

ACOUSTICS OF BUILDINGS; including acoustics of auditoriums and sound-proofing of rooms, by F. R. Watson.

ACOUSTICS OF BUILDINGS; including acoustics of auditoriums and sound-proofing of rooms, by F. R. Watson.

Rose B. Knox & Manning de V. Lee (A); 7Oct59; R243718. KNUDSEN, VERN O. Architectural acoustics.

SEE Culbertson, Ely. CULVER, CHARLES A. Musical acoustics.

ACOUSTICS OF BUILDINGS; including acoustics of auditoriums and sound-proofing of rooms, by F. R. Watson.

ACOUSTICS OF BUILDINGS; including acoustics of auditoriums and sound-proofing of rooms, by F. R. Watson.

Rose B. Knox & Manning de V. Lee (A); 7Oct59; R243718. KNUDSEN, VERN O. Architectural acoustics.

SEE Culbertson, Ely. CULVER, CHARLES A. Musical acoustics.

" ACOUSTICS, the science of sound as it affects the ear, specially of the laws to be observed in the construction of halls so that people may distinctly hear in them.

Vainly did I endeavor to calm the terror of my patients, excited still more by the elemental uproar without; vainly did I harangue them, in the plainest terms to which science is reducible, on atmospheric vibrations, acoustics, reverberations, and volcanic agencies; they insisted on some supernatural power having produced the recent fearful sounds.

As a boy he exhibited a genius for invention, as well as for acoustics.

Bell was illustrating some mysteries of acoustics with the aid of the piano.