[pianotech] Totally glueless

[Ron Nossaman]

On 2/1/2013 6:35 AM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:
> Okey Dokey, then. Here's another, perhaps more appropriate example: get
> a friend to walk to the end of a long steel or iron bridge and put his
> ear against it. You whack the other end with a hammer* and he hears it
> through the steel, even if inaudible at that distance through air.

Yep, that's a good one. You get something similar whacking a guy wire, 
or piano string under tension. It's a traveling wave.

The Newtons Cradle is a kinetic energy transfer, having nothing to do 
with the subject either.

Ron N