Escapement wrote: ------------------- > My (cursory) understanding, stated in my posts, was that it was > through the coupling of the strings and the soundboard, that resonance > plays an essential role, and that the soundboard is far more efficient > at radiating sound energy. I'll take exception to resonance.The ideal soundboard will be minimally resonant to any input. >Again, all these points are in my previous > posts. I also appreciate that there is still a great deal to be > understood and that the way musical instruments work and how we hear > them is still in some ways “mysterious.” The whole point of this was not to explain everything about soundboards or anything else, but to once again try to make the point that a soundboard isn't an amplifier. Ron N
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