Timeline for The physics of sound boards
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| Mar 3, 2014 at 7:34 | comment | added | John Robertson | Having had time to think about it I think this explains why type of sound made becomes that of the soundboard, i.e. the harmonics of the better soundmaker dominate. But I think Olin is onto something. If one were to use the voilin to drive the string instead one would get a greater response at the strings resonating frequencies, but it would not cause the violin to produce a much louder sound at those frequencies. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 2:17 | comment | added | John Robertson | Oh, I know. Teaching a semester of PDE included working out the harmonic states of a hollow sphere. Cool stuff, for sure. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 2:02 | comment | added | Mark Rovetta | Yes but a sound board would have multiple harmonics. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 1:26 | comment | added | John Robertson | If this is the primary mechanism, then soundboards only work at frequencies for which they have harmonics. Is that true? | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 16:18 | history | answered | Mark Rovetta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |