[CAUT] Accujust and grunting fish bait

[Ron Nossaman]

Jon Page wrote:
> There are no vibrations transmitted to the vertical hitch pins because 
> the bridges
> suck all the energy out of the strings and squirts it into the sounding 
> board.

Not quite. The hammer moves the string, the string moves the 
whole bridge and soundboard, which moves all of the strings 
fore and aft of the bridges, which then move the bridge and 
soundboard, etc. It's a cycle, losing energy by displacement 
of air (making sound), plate flexing, rim flexing, the floor, 
etc. While energy does not transfer across the bridge direct 
to the back scale segments specific to a note played (as it 
does across the capo to the front duplex), it does get there 
in a roundabout way.


> It's how well the sounding board transfers the energy to the surrounding 
> air and the
> density of the air on any particular day that causes the plate to vibrate.


Maybe, but all those vibrating strings are connected directly 
to the plate too.
Ron N