Re: Re: Soundproofing a Home Tuba Room


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Posted by Joe Baker on February 18, 2004 at 12:42:28:

In Reply to: Re: Soundproofing a Home Tuba Room posted by ken k on February 15, 2004 at 22:48:03:

I would think this would be a pretty effective way to greatly reduce (not eliminate) sound penetration, provided you get a good seal around doors and stagger the joints. I was good friends with a fellow who oversaw the building of our church sanctuary almost 20 years ago. In anticipation of holding multiple services, which meant Sunday School class and church services simultaneously, they used several measures to limit the volume of the (loud!) organ in a hall of classrooms that shared a common wall with the sanctuary. But the main thing they did was a wall, as others have described, with staggered studs, and tripled sheetrock on the interior of the sanctuary. They then filled the space within the wall with cellulose insulation. The results were astonishing; you literally could not hear the organ, even at fff, from inside those classrooms. From the street, sure, but not in those rooms! Of course, they had the luxury of building an interior wall that extended from well below those classrooms to well above them. You'll still need to find a way to keep the sound from traveling through attics, crawlspaces, floor joist spaces, etc.

Joe Baker, who would like to couple this with the old idea of building a 'freestanding' structure within a basement.


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