On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:18:58 JIMRPT wrote: > > I bet a regular acoustic guitar would have >pretty good sustain if you took off the bridge. Of course, you wouldn't be >able to hear it.">> > > I'm not sure what you mean by this Electric guitars do have a bridge...don't >they. The bridge is where most of the tremolo attachments are hooked up to. That's not really what we think of as a bridge is it? More like a hitch or tail piece for ending the string. The string vibrations are not coupled to the guitar body as in an acoustic guitar. They are picked up by a 'pickup' and amplified. >As to the acoustic part I am not sure I follow your reasoning... a piano >would not have very good volume if you didn't install the bridges >either.......your point??? > My point is that the solid body guitar does not have better sustain than a hollow body acoustic guitar because it has a solid body. or because it is more rigid than an acoustic guitar. It is because the string is not coupled to the body of the guitar. > To comment on the tone bar anaology......it ain't one because the tone bar >is in and of itself the producer of tone and projector of tone whereas the >piano sound board >does not produce the sound it merely projects what is produced by a separate >mechanism, i.e. the string. >Jim Bryant (FL) > I don't agree. The tone bar is excited by a mallet or whatever. The soundboard is excited by vibrations from the bridge (in what form I won't get into - I don't want to get in the middle of that discussion). At that point I don't see much difference between the two. Phil F -- Click here for your very own create-a-date adventure from MatchMaker Go to http://ecard.matchmaker.com/dating.html
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