>And there is the profound difference between us. I do NOT see a >string physically moving and rocking a bridge and driving the board >as a solenoid drives a cardboard cone. I contested the analogy from >the very beginning and do so now. > >Did I ever say the soundboard does not move? That would indeed be an >odd statement. Did I ever say the bridge does not move? Since the >bridge is glued and screwed to a flexing soundboard, that would also >have been a pretty tricky position to maintain. I said neither. Then I fail utterly to see how the soundboard can move without the bridge moving, and indeed the whole purpose of this. >What I do suggest is that nothing moves at all until those vibrations >or molecular disturbances or compression waves cross the glue line >into the soundboard. At that moment, things get a-movin' an >a-shakin'. > >JD Which seems to be unprovable one way or the other, and is of what consequence to the workings of the soundboard anyway? Ron N
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