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the amount of absorption added to the room so the reverber- ation time remained long enough to provide a suitable envi- ronment for choral singing. Speech intelligibility and the music environment were both quite satisfactory.AT
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Marshall Long received a BSE
from Princeton University in
1965, attended the University
of Grenoble in France and
the University of Madrid in
Spain in 1966, and received
MS and Ph.D. degrees in
engineering from University
of California-Los Angeles
(UCLA) in 1971. While still a
graduate student, he founded
his own consulting firm now
in its 37th year. Marshall
Long/Acoustics specializes in architectural acoustics, audiovisu- al design, noise and vibration control, and other technical areas related to acoustics. He enjoys sailing, judo, soccer, reading, and writing, and is living with his family in Sherman Oaks, CA.
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