prismatic-bell: injuries-in-dust:Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in C
prismatic-bell: injuries-in-dust: Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called “musical floorboards.” Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor. The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didn’t. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming. Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards! Also called “nightingale floors” for the bird they supposedly sound like, many of these floors still exist today! -- source link
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