[Desdemona]

As for carpet -- tear it out and put in stone or tile!

Good luck. An suggestion of the sort is usually met with great disdain in these parts. Fortunately,our beloved Cathedral has marble.

[AnAmericanMother]

We have stone, but as our director observed, they broadened out the nave to make room for more people, and it DID alter the acoustic a bit. And the fact that the walls are merely brick and plaster instead of 6 feet of stone means that the basses kind of disappear. That's why we have so many basses, we could have a male schola with no problem. We're short on altos at the moment, one of the baritones can sing male alto and he's come down to join me, which is great because I have a tenorish sound anyway, and when we sing the English anthems originally written for male altos it sounds fabulous. Just like Mr. Purcell intended.