David Love wrote: > If we agree that no new energy is created, but that the energy from the > string through transduction creates new sound via the soundboard, and if > sound is energy, haven't we created new energy? > > David Love No. Energy has merely passed from the motion of the finger of the player, into our ear as sound, via a number of conversions and considerable disbursal and absorption through the action, strings, soundboard, air, etc. We can't in any way create either matter, or energy. We can only modify one through the use of the other - and vise versa. Ron N
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