An Exercise in Aural Description

Norbert cut one. Not loud but audible. A short, gentle attack and brief crescendo that climaxed a mere half octave higher. Its descent was the interesting part, a long lowering of pitch and volume that maintained a taut focus despite its pulsating nature. The end was hardly abrupt, the sound softly aging from resonance to whisper to memory. At its worst it was conversational in tone. But nobody was conversing, just counting down the floors to the lobby.