St Aidan’s were looking for a less traditional approach to break times, using samples of classical music to indicate the start and finish of periods rather than the usual bell. They also needed a paging facility throughout the building to inform of important events and make announcements.
A 100v line speaker system was installed for the paging and music, which also included exterior quality horn speakers for the playground. At the front-end a multi-sound-card PC with multi-zone software was installed. This gave the school the capability of playing individual music samples to specific zones of the school simultaneously, so differentiating the end-of-period signals for each zone is possible.
