On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Carl Donsbach wrote: Thanks for comments and perspective. Notes:
> With a small desk fan, setting it on the floor, a little farther away may > help. You want to avoid putting the fan on a large resonant surface, such as a thin table top. Something heavy and rigid (like a pool table or concrete floor), or thermodynamically productive of entropy (like a sofa or foam pad) would be quieter. > Also, I don't know if this is an option for you, but a ceiling fan should > be fairly quiet. My ceiling fan is brand new, good quality, and therefore perfectly quiet. But it causes a warble in the lute's sound. Very annoying. I think it comes from sound reflecting off the moving blades (Doppler effect) -- if so, one could reduce it by covering the blades with acoustic tile..
