HI folks This one keeps coming back, as if one is looking for some way of justifying the thought from the get go. A soundboard is not going to influence the balance between the fundemental and partials across the board unless it acts as a broad band filter or something of the kin. Looking at resonant frequency partials ladders for various different soundboards, there is nothing to indicate that any particular type of board construction will do this per se. That said... if you build any type of board purposefully do act as a filter.... you can. Zimmerman comes to mind... :) The idea tho is to create an assembly that doesnt get in the way of the strings own partials picture any more then is absolutely neccessary. Read Wogram. Cheers RicB ............. So then, if I understand what you are saying, how do you (or anyone else) imagine that the balance between the fundamental and partials might be affected by CC versus RC&S? Might the RC&S tend to produce a stronger fundamental with weaker overtones? ...........
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