> >----------------------------------------------- > >No, Kristinn, as I have been saying and writing for well over 25 years in >the various classes I've given and articles I've written on piano >soundboards and piano acoustics: In spite of what several manufacturers >marketing departments would have us believe, the piano soundboard is not an >amplifier. It is a transducer. It changes the wave energy in the strings >into acoustical, or sound, energy. > >No, Tony, we don't want the soundboard to oscillate. It does, of course, but >we don't want it to and we try to keep it from doing so. At least we should >be. > >Del Sir, I stand aside, and bow to thee. Forgive us our transduces, and those who transduce against us. Sincerely, (with a tongue-in-cheek, oxymoronically) Kristinn P.S. Do you know of any other "conspiracies" by the manufacturers ?
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