Sound waves(The behavior of soundboards)

[Ron Nossaman]

>And there is the profound difference between us.  I do NOT see a 
>string physically moving and rocking a bridge and driving the board 
>as a solenoid drives a cardboard cone.  I contested the analogy from 
>the very beginning and do so now.
>
>Did I ever say the soundboard does not move?  That would indeed be an 
>odd statement. Did I ever say the bridge does not move?  Since the 
>bridge is glued and screwed to a flexing soundboard, that would also 
>have been a pretty tricky position to maintain.  I said neither.

Then I fail utterly to see how the soundboard can move without the bridge
moving, and indeed the whole purpose of this.


>What I do suggest is that nothing moves at all until those vibrations 
>or molecular disturbances or compression waves cross the glue line 
>into the soundboard.  At that moment, things get a-movin' an 
>a-shakin'.
>
>JD

Which seems to be unprovable one way or the other, and is of what
consequence  to the workings of the soundboard anyway? 

Ron N