By Jana Peterson
Pine Knot News
High school auditorium gets a massive makeover
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The view of the auditorium from the stage shows the new seating and acoustic panels, bright new LED ceiling lights, new chairs and handrails and a new sound and lighting room at the back. The catwalk above hasn't changed, but will get a new light truss behind it, to target a removable stage extension (not pictured).
Fifty years ago, the Cloquet High School auditorium plans included an acoustical shell. Since then, 50 years' worth of band and choir performances have been less than they could have been, as the sound of their instruments and voices also carried upward, to be absorbed by the curtains and drapery above.
Not anymore.
With the nearly $1.7 million renovation project very close to completion, three portions of an acoustical shell ceiling now hang from the rigging over the stage. When needed, the massive curved hard white shells can be tilted and linked together to arch over 13 portable towers,...
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