-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Piano acoustics Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:40:46 -0500 (EST) From: Gabriel Weinreich <weinreic@umich.edu> To: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> Dear Mr. Brekne, in this case the simplest process -- transverse motion of the soundboard -- is also the dominant one. Although it is possible to resolve it into waves traveling through the soundboard, I think you can understand it better as the bridge giving rise to standing waves in the soundboard which are, in fact, what are called modes of vibration of the soundboard. The other models you mention are fairly negligible by comparison - GW
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