Birmingham Symphony Hall Schedule

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Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, England.

Dampening panels can be extended or retracted to ensure that the 'sound' of the space is perfectly matched to the scale and style of the music to be performed. There are also reverse fan walls at the rear of the hall which provide further reflections of sound.

The U-shaped reverberation chamber area has a volume of . There is an acoustic canopy which can be raised or lowered above the orchestra.

As a result, the hall is mounted on rubber cushions, as is the railway track.

Large, low-speed ducts cuts the ventilation noise.In 2001, a 6000-pipe symphony organ was installed, designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn and specially tailored to the hall's reverberation chambers.

It has a reverberation chamber behind the orchestra and extending high along the sides, adding 50% to the hall's volume, the doors to which can be remotely opened or closed.

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