In this short note we treat a 1+1-dimensional system of changing type. On different spatial domains the system is of hyperbolic and elliptic type, that is, formally, ∂ 2 t u n − ∂ 2 x u n = ∂ t f and u n − ∂ 2 x u n = f on the respective spatial domains j∈{1,...,n} j−1 n , 2j−1 2n and j∈{1,...,n} 2j−1 2n , j n . We show that (u n ) n converges weakly to u, which solves the exponentially stable limit equationIf the elliptic equation is replaced by a parabolic one, the limit equation is not exponentially stable.