----- Original Message ----- From: "John Delacour" <JD@Pianomaker.co.uk> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: December 03, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Re: Sound in soundboards > >But the soundboard isn't transmitting sound. It's dispersing string energy > >and producing sound. Transducing. > > I'm more of a classicist than an electrician and to me transmit means > "send through..." and transduce would mean "lead through..." if it > were in Webster's dictionary, which it aint in mine. At any rate I > can't visualize the difference in effect. I'm sorry, I thought the word was generally known and understood. At least that it would be in most dictionaries. My mistake. Transducer: A device that converts energy: a device that transforms one type of energy into another, for example, a microphone, a photoelectric cell, or a loudspeaker. In this case I refer to the soundboard assembly as a transducer because it transforms mechanical energy into sound energy. Del
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