For those that are still interested in this topic I found what I think is an interesting site. Apparently it's the draft of a book about the behavior of musical instruments. http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/waveguide/waveguide.html This is from a Stanford site. Also here's another link to a page giving many tutorials, etc. A wealth of information if you have the time: http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pubs.html I haven't spent much time looking at this as yet. However, here's one little quote which I thought was interesting because it mentions bridge rigidity and also the relative rigidity of electric guitar bodies (for which I took some flak for mentioning some time back). The quote: No vibrating string in musical acoustics is rigidly terminated, since such a string would produce no sound through the body of the instrument. (Electric guitars with magnetic pickups have nearly rigid terminations, but even then, coupling phenomena are clearly observed, especially above the sixth harmonic.) Furthermore, it is typically the case that vertical transverse waves are transduced differently at the bridge. For example, the bridge on a piano is much easier to ``push'' into the soundboard than it is to ``shear'' sidewise along the soundboard. Happy Reading, Phil F --- Phillip Ford Piano Service & Restoration 1777 Yosemite Ave - 215 San Francisco, CA 94124 2,000,000,000 Web Pages--you only need 1. Save time with My Lycos. http://my.lycos.com
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