Objective evaluation of chamber-music halls in Europe and Japan

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 357-372

  Hidaka, Takayuki ^a   Nishihara, Noriko ^a  

^a TAKENAKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICAL PARAMETER REVERBERATION; TIME GRAVITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURE; BUILDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; EUROPE; JAPAN; MEASUREMENT; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EUROPE; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; JUDGMENT; MUSIC; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142711623     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1760112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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