>Has it occurred to you why he says "tries to drive" ? If it >succeeds, why doesn't he just write "drives..." or "directly >drives...", and if it succeeds, what earthly cause or need is there >for the bending waves? Of course it occurred to me. And where might you possibly imagine these bending waves to come from if not from the strings moving the bridge? >Now I suppose you are going to tell me that the sound-board of the >pianoforte moves the wire threaded through the building and the wire >threaded through the building moves the resonance-board or violin >plate, and that this it does directly. Of course it does. What would preclude this? >I have previously mentioned the cocoa-tin telephones of my childhood >with no reponse, but you'll probably find Wheatstone and Rayleigh >less worthy or your contempt. > >JD I thought it was inescapably obvious that one moving diaphragm will pull and move another connected to it by a taut string. What is the point? Ron N
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