piano/violin

[Brian Lawson]

I actually had to look the word up to be sure, but it makes so much sense

Brian

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?transducer
 Main Entry: trans·duc·er
Pronunciation: -'dü-s&r, -'dyü-
Function: noun
Date: 1924
: a device that is actuated by power from one system and supplies power
usually in another form to a second system <a loudspeaker is a transducer
that transforms electrical signals into sound energy>


>
>
> > While reading all this interesting discussion this morning I suddenly
> > realized that  I've not noticed the use of an important word.
> >
> > It's TRANSDUCER!!
> >
> > A soundboard doing its job is transducing  (any of various devices that
> > transmit energy from one system to another).
> > Yes, it uses vibration as the means to do this and any random resonance
in
> > the board makes it more efficient at the frequency of resonance.  The
"Q"
> of
> > the resonance determines the efficiency at that point.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> It's actually been used quite a bit. Just not recently.
>
> It's taken a long time to get folks away from the concept of the
soundboard
> as amplifier and toward the concept of the soundboard as transducer. The
> amplifier analogy is a warmer, fuzzier concept--not to mention, a familiar
> one. Marketing people, especially, seem to be in love with the word
(still).
> And it does seem so logical; there isn't much 'sound' coming from the
> strings and there's so much sound coming from the soundboard--ergo, the
> soundboard must be amplifying the sound.
>
> It wasn't all that long ago that the mention of the word 'transducer'
would
> draw a variety of puzzled--or blank--looks: It's a what?
>
> But, progress is being made! Fifteen or twenty years ago when I would ask
a
> class to define the piano soundboard, a majority would respond, "it's an
> amplifier." Today if I ask the same question, the majority will respond,
> "it's a transducer." And, they'll even know what the word means.
>
> Regards,
>
> Del
>