James, At 07:27 AM 11/3/1998 -0600, you wrote: >>If a soundboard doesn't amplify, what does? Nothing, in a real piano, anyway. I will immediately defer here to Del, or some other less mathematically challenged individual than myself. The (really) short version is that the soundboard in a piano is a tranducer. That is, the relatively concentrated energy from the strings is transferred to the soundboard through the mechanical coupling provided by the bridge(s). There is a significant loss of energy during this transfer. Still really clear, huh? Horace Horace Greeley, CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer Controller's Office Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 650.725.9062 fax: 650.725.8014
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