From Deseret News archives:
MormonTimes.com: Echoes from past
Evergreen garlands helped dampen reverberation in Salt Lake Tabernacle
Those famous Salt Lake Tabernacle acoustics that let you hear someone at the front of the hall whisper or drop a pin while you're standing at the rear were a bane, not a boon, in the beginning.
As it happened, it was children who were called upon to help solve the problem. And what they did was re-created recently by Primary children from the Farmington Utah South Stake in a special girls' day-camp activity.
