When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Whispering gallery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whispering_gallery

    The sound is carried by waves, known as whispering-gallery waves, that travel around the circumference clinging to the walls, an effect that was discovered in the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral in London. [1] The extent to which the sound travels at St Paul's can also be judged by clapping in the gallery, which produces four echoes. [2]

  3. Prehistoric music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_music

    [citation needed] The context in which prehistoric music took place has also become a subject of study and debate, as the sound made by music in prehistory would have been somewhat different depending on the acoustics present. Some cultures include sound mimesis within their music; often, this feature is related to shamanistic beliefs or practice.

  4. Clangers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangers

    One of the most noted aspects was the use of sound effects, with a score composed by Vernon Elliott under instructions from Postgate. Although the episodes were scripted, most of the music used in the two series was written in translation by Postgate in the form of "musical sketches" or graphs that he drew for Elliott, who converted the ...

  5. Well to Hell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_hell

    The "Well to Hell", also known as the "Siberian hell sounds", is an urban legend regarding a putative borehole in the Siberian region of Russia, which was purportedly drilled so deep that it broke through into Hell.

  6. Special effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect

    A special effect of a miniature person from the 1952 film The Seven Deadly Sins. Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world.

  7. Great Stalacpipe Organ - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stalacpipe_Organ

    Console of the organ, an electrically actuated lithophone. The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA.Covering 3.5 acres of the cavern, it is considered the world's largest instrument by Guinness World Records.

  8. Category:Audio effects - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_effects

    Pages in category "Audio effects" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 3D audio effect;

  9. Cave - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave

    The deepest known cave—measured from its highest entrance to its lowest point—is Veryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, with a depth of 2,204 m (7,231 ft). [17] This was the first cave to be explored to a depth of more than 2,000 m (6,600 ft). (The first cave to be descended below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) was Gouffre Berger in France.)