soundboard vibration: was News Flash

[Farrell]

Indeed, because the cracked pieces of panel are all glued to the ribs and 
the ribs are vibrating with the panel. No?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> Clearly ribs do participate in the transmission of energy across the grain
> of the panel.  Even when a soundboard is cracked all the way across the
> panel in several places the entire panel still moves.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@comcast.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Grin.... Well I am not going to get sucked into that debate agin.... I
> remember well 3 years or so back.  I'll just restate my own unschooled
> perspective that it seems to me that all vibrational energy passing
> through the panel, over the surface, across the ribs, or wherever are
> all an intregral part of what ends up being the longitudinal wave
> passing through the air that hits our ears.  As for how a soundboard is
> not a speaker... I'm afraid thats beyond my knowledge to tell. Seems
> like a lot of good analogies are possible comparing the two for sure...
> but just how far that goes is another question.
>
> I would say however... that the fact that the air gets moving because of
> the transverse motion doesnt mean that internal vibrations caused by the
> same input, dispersed by the same system are not interconnected...
> interdependant.
>
> But this is all off on a completely different tangent... and... well go
> there if ya'lls wants to.
>
> hehe
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
> Terry writes:
>
> And this is the heart of my question. Do sound waves travel through =
> soundboard wood (in any meaningful way) or does the soundboard assembly =
> act primarily as a diaphragm whose vibration is caused by the vibrating =
> bridge, which in turn is caused by the vibrating string. That is the way =
> I've always pictured it. And hence my "circle of sound" comments.
>
> I know a soundboard is not a speaker - but how different is it? A stereo =
> speaker does not rely on soundwave transmission through the cone =
> material - but rather it is simply driven by the coil and magnet and =
> electic current. Is not the soundboard simply driven in a similar way by =
> the strings/bridges?