[CAUT] Accujust and grunting fish bait

[David Love]

OK agreed that people should understand the concepts and express them
clearly but while transducer does describe the function of the soundboard
assembly converting one form of energy to another, it doesn't describe the
phenomenon of that the sound is made louder.  After all, the soundboard
could be made out of something so rigid that it actually moved less air than
the vibrating string.  So I would argue you could correctly say that the
sound volume is "amplified" by virtue of the energy being transduced into a
form that is more efficient at moving larger volumes of air.  In fact, when
talking about it in terms of the energy produced by the sheer greater volume
of moving air, there is amplification.  So the issue is somewhat more
complicated than just talking about the energy transfer between systems.
There is a net effect that occurs outside the limits of energy transduction,
i.e., the volume of sound is greater.  But it does cause some confusion
talking about it this way.  

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron
Nossaman
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 4:48 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Accujust and grunting fish bait

David Love wrote:
> Sorry to disagree but I think in this case it is a semantic issue and 
> the original question has been lost on this tangent. 

I disagree. It's not a semantic issue. The terms are clearly 
defined, regardless of colloquial usage. It's the continued 
use and tolerance of fuzzy ill defined concepts that make 
these discussions nearly useless, and doomed to repeat endlessly.

Ron N