----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristinn Leifsson" <istuner@islandia.is> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: January 24, 2001 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Bass bridge question > Hi Tony, > > Since it started oscillating and moving air. > > Best regards > > Kristinn ----------------------------------------------- No, Kristinn, as I have been saying and writing for well over 25 years in the various classes I've given and articles I've written on piano soundboards and piano acoustics: In spite of what several manufacturers marketing departments would have us believe, the piano soundboard is not an amplifier. It is a transducer. It changes the wave energy in the strings into acoustical, or sound, energy. No, Tony, we don't want the soundboard to oscillate. It does, of course, but we don't want it to and we try to keep it from doing so. At least we should be. Del
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