Airborne-sound-absorbing wall or ceiling paneling

Airborne-sound-absorbing wall or ceiling paneling comprising:

• a perforated plate having a hole-area proportion L and a nonwoven fabric bonded thereto by a discontinuously distributed adhesive layer and having an open-area proportion N and an air flow resistance W.sub.v in the zones free of adhesive, said perforated plate being mountable at a spacing from a wall or ceiling that is large in relation to the thickness of the nonwoven fabric and said paneling having a total air flow resistance W, wherein the adhesive layer is applied to the nonwoven fabric in the form of a fine pattern composed of substantially annular, circular and/or elongated partial layers, wherein the thickness of the nonwoven fabric is from 0.1 to 0.5 mm and the partial layers have a width ranging from 0.1 to 3 mm and that the proportion per unit area of the nonwoven fabric which is not covered with adhesive is approximately equal to its air flow resistance W.sub.v divided by the hole-area proportion L times the desired total air flow resistance W.