----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Anderson" <andrew at andersonmusic.com> To: <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Accujust and grunting fish bait > The energy is already existing in the excited string, which could sustain > so much longer without that dampening soundboard attached! Or, do you mean the bridge? Last night I struck a tuning fork and placed it on the bridge of my violin. It became quite loud, but dampened very quickly. I struck it again and placed it on the top plate. The sound was much less loud, but sustained for a much longer period of time. Curious, I struck it again, placed it on the bridge until it dissipated, then on the top plate, and sure enough, there was not enough vibration left in the fork to hear the tone anymore. I tried it over and over again to be sure it wasn't the difference in the way I struck the fork. This is yet another example of a system that in my mind works the same as the accujust hitch pin. Any noise, including the percussion of the hammerstrike, that is transferred through the vibrations of the backlengths is initially made louder because of the flexible properties of the taller hitch and is transferred to the plate where it resonates. Don't get all over me about semantics again. I have never studied physics formally, and don't know your language. This is the language I have to use to explain it the way I understand it. Jeff
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