The small canteen area has reflective and absorptive surfaces that impact sound. The brick wall and metal table and chair legs reflect sound, while the wooden floor and chairs absorb it, resulting in an echoic sound recording.

1. The brick wall in this small area
of the canteen would make The metal chair legs will reflect
sound bounce of it. sound.
This shiny silver table would The wood of the chairs would
reflect sound. absorb the sound as would the
wooden floor.
The sound recording we took in the canteen sounds quite ehoic as it
Is an open space and it bounces of the brick wall and the wooden floor and chairs absorb it, The
metal table and metal chair legs reflect the sound.