Thanks Phil. You know me :)... I'll read ANYthing.. hehe. RicB Phillip L Ford wrote: > For those that are still interested in this topic I found what I think is an > interesting site. Apparently it's the draft of a book about the behavior > of musical instruments. > > http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/waveguide/waveguide.html > > This is from a Stanford site. Also here's another link to a page giving > many tutorials, etc. A wealth of information if you have the time: > > http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pubs.html > > I haven't spent much time looking at this as yet. However, here's one little > quote which I thought was interesting because it mentions bridge rigidity > and also the relative rigidity of electric guitar bodies (for which I took some > flak for mentioning some time back). The quote: > > No vibrating string in musical acoustics is rigidly terminated, since such a string would produce no sound through the body of the instrument. (Electric guitars with magnetic > pickups have nearly rigid terminations, but even then, coupling phenomena are clearly observed, especially above the sixth harmonic.) Furthermore, it is typically the case that > vertical transverse waves are transduced differently at the bridge. For example, the bridge on a piano is much easier to ``push'' into the soundboard than it is to ``shear'' > sidewise along the soundboard. > > Happy Reading, > > Phil F > --- > Phillip Ford > Piano Service & Restoration > 1777 Yosemite Ave - 215 > San Francisco, CA 94124 > > 2,000,000,000 Web Pages--you only need 1. Save time with My Lycos. > http://my.lycos.com -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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