ECHOES MADE TO ORDER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 347, 22 January 1918, Page 4

ECHOES MADE TO ORDER.

Are you aware that it is possible to make echoes? It is, indeed, easier to make than to destroy them. In the past men built their gieat temples and cathedrals with no thought of acoustics. Hence, when tin- preacher pieached, echoes rolli-d freely amid the gioiuings ot the roof, down the rows of siulpttiied columns, and round and round the nave. With wiies strung here and with tapestries spread there. man\ of the echoes of the old-world buildings have been obliterated. » There are e< ho experts - builders acquainted with the science of acoustics, whose speciality is echoes' destruction. Sometimes their tasks are hard. To-day an atchiteet takes thought of the echo. His building is constructed so as to exclude this introoer. And, knowing how to exclude it. he knows how to welcome it also. Architects are frequentlv called upon in landscape work to put up sum-mer-houses and arrange nooks ,tr<>uno them set as to create nn echo 111 c ■ i«- - 4-4 this thev can sat;s|ac toril\ do.