Sound in soundboards

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Delacour" <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: December 03, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Sound in soundboards


> >But the soundboard isn't transmitting sound. It's dispersing string
energy
> >and producing sound. Transducing.
>
> I'm more of a classicist than an electrician and to me transmit means
> "send through..." and transduce would mean "lead through..." if it
> were in Webster's dictionary, which it aint in mine.  At any rate I
> can't visualize the difference in effect.

I'm sorry, I thought the word was generally known and understood. At least
that it would be in most dictionaries. My mistake.

Transducer: A device that converts energy: a device that transforms one type
of energy into another, for example, a microphone, a photoelectric cell, or
a loudspeaker.

In this case I refer to the soundboard assembly as a transducer because it
transforms mechanical energy into sound energy.

Del