The use of woodcarving in very large surfaces within Catholic churches was very usual in the 17th and 18th century not only in Portugal and Spain but also in Southern America, and in other European Catholic countries. In Portugal, the town of Porto was even well known for its informal school of woodcarving masters. This paper presents the results for sound absorption coefficients regarding a typical early 18th ...
The use of woodcarving in very large surfaces within Catholic churches was very usual in the 17th and 18th century not only in Portugal and Spain but also in Southern America, and in other European Catholic countries. In Portugal, the town of Porto was even well known for its informal school of woodcarving masters. This paper presents the results for sound absorption coefficients regarding a typical early 18th ...
This paper concentrates on the Rapid Speech Transmission Index (RASTI) values within churches with the use of elevated lateral pulpits for the emitting location. The RASTI was measured in 19 Catholic churches in Portugal built in the last 9 centuries. Four receiver and two source locations (altar and pulpit) were used in each church, without the use of sound reinforcement systems. The pulpits occupied a central...
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