Sound in soundboards

[David Mayer]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=transduce

-----Original Message-----
From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Sound in soundboards


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>----- 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
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>> >But the soundboard isn't transmitting sound. It's dispersing string
>energy
>> >and producing sound. Transducing.
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>> 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.
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>I'm sorry, I thought the word was generally known and understood. At least
>that it would be in most dictionaries. My mistake.
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>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.
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>In this case I refer to the soundboard assembly as a transducer because it
>transforms mechanical energy into sound energy.
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>Del
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