piano/violin

[Farrell]

A penny for your thoughts on the big bulbous back end of the Boston grands
Del? When my wife and I traded our $#%&ing 1098 a few years back at the
Steinway dealer for our GP178, we got the earful regarding "bigger
soundboard, bigger sound".

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: piano/violin


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Duplexdan@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: June 13, 2001 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: piano/violin
>
>
> > If i may I'd like to jump in on transducer, Del.My old Webster's New
> > collegiate Dictionary , last printing 1950, has this definition:
> >
> > A device actuated by poe\wer from one system and supplying power to a
> second
> > system.
> >
> > It would seem that the transducing characteristic of the soundboard that
> Del
> > points out is absolutely correct. The only question I feel that
mitigates
> the
> > renaming of the board from amlifier to transducer is :
> >
> > What kind of power? There is no question that the board transduces the
> power
> > from the strings to the bridge to the board. But the effect of the
> > transduction is exactly to amplify the sound of the strings, is it not?
> >
> > Dan Franklin, RPT
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> There is no 'sound of the strings.' (Well, ok, just a tiny bit. But it is
so
> slight as to be essentially inaudible.) What is there is the vibrating
> energy traveling along and within the string. It is this energy--energy
that
> is not in any way 'sound energy'--that is changed into sound energy by the
> bridge/soundboard/rib assembly.
>
> I wouldn't have started making such a big deal out of this all those years
> back except that the concept of the soundboard as an amplifier had led us
> directly to the concept of larger amplifiers being better than smaller
> amplifiers and, by extension, larger 'amplifier/soundboards' being better
> than smaller 'amplifier/soundboards.' In reality, once the soundboard size
> reaches an optimum point, anything beyond that is counterproductive. The
> idea of larger is better is still, unfortunately, a belief that is central
> to some piano manufacturer's design philosophy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Del
>
>
>