Perhaps the secret formula for superior acoustics is simply dry aged wood, plaster and dead air.

Shannon's was little more than a counter of artificially aged wood.

The future smells of dry, aged wood, spices and chemicals.

Most string instruments, made of tender, aged wood, fly in the cabin with their owners.

The musty scent of aged wood and death hovered in the room.

Now Mahart held the lamp very close to that aged wood.

The shutters on our windows are aged wood from the mountains.

"The aged wood gives the space some warmth," she said.

The floor shifted occasionally with an arthritic creak of aged wood as she moved over it.

The body and neck are carved out of one piece of aged wood (minimum 10 years old).