Piano Rims (rambling post)

[Ron Nossaman]

>I don't agree.  The tone bar is excited by a mallet or whatever.  The 
>soundboard
>is excited by vibrations from the bridge (in what form I won't get into - I 
>don't
>want to get in the middle of that discussion).  At that point I don't see much
>difference between the two.
>
>Phil F

The soundboard has to have the string(s) as the spring (energy storage
device) and mass, or it won't sustain much at all. Not much ring time to an
unstrung soundboard. The tone bar is spring and mass all in one.

Ron N