Whoever would, might hear where the new poorhouse was to stand, and where the orphan home, and know that the little red cottage, just like any other, was for a musical composer, who must have one large room built with special care and according to all the most scientific acoustic rules; for there he was to have a fine organ, which was now being constructed in the most particular manner.
"Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories"
Mrs. Woods Baker
It has been said of registers that they are "acoustic illusions which disappear in the perfectly trained voice."
"Resonance in Singing and Speaking"
Thomas Fillebrown
In fact, some careless printer had even made up a batch of circulars headed "Dr. Mc Nair's acoustic Oil" but concluding with the admonition, "Ask for Larzetti's acoustic Oil and take no other."
"History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills"
Robert B. Shaw