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PERHAPS the following description of a phenomenon in sound which I have frequently observed may be of some interest to a few of your readers:— If an observer is placed a short way, say about eight yards, in front of a straight palisaded fence made with deals of about three inches in width and about six inches from centre to centre apart, so as to leave intervening spaces of three inches, and then gives a smart clap with his hands, or, what is better, with two flat pieces of wood, a peculiar echo is heard almost at the same instant.
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FRENCH, A. Acoustic Phenomenon. Nature 12, 46–47 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012046b0
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