Ah, I made it over. Interesting discussion about the soundboard. On one of my (now several) gurdies (flatback), I noticed that if I pressed down on the keybox while the gurdy was sitting firmly on my lap, the sound changed dramatically, from rather boomy to sweeter. The most obvious reason (I reasoned) was the back was vibrating too freely. The gurdy had no soundpost I could see, so I made one out of 1" round wood capped on both sides by cork pads (used on furniture feet). I jammed the post in between the center soundboard brace and the center of the back (which required a bit of hammering to get it in place) and that did the trick. The sound was much improved. Now in this case the post was not to transmit sound from the soundboard to the back, but rather to muffle the back from sounding. This particular experiment however was probably unique to my instrument as something like a luteback for example or a braced flatback is already muted and so the sound post would act differently. But I did want to impart that experiment as food for thought.
Also about soundboards for guitars. I have an Ovation with a carbon top. The guitar is similar in shape and body composition (composite back) as the Ovations with wood soundboards. One difference between the carbon top and the wood tops are the carbon top is very thin (It's actually carbon on both sides of a very very thin piece of spruce) and hence can vibrate more freely. There is a vast, vast difference in sound between the two models and I have never owned a nicer sounding guitar (not even close!) then my carbon top model. It's the top that makes the sound! (at least on this guitar). It seems logical to me using this same reasoning that soundboard wood choice and bracing design (and age of wood) on a gurdy would also affect the sound to a large degree. Ken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy?hl=en?hl=en Although the method of distribution has changed, the rules of courtesy and appropriateness of postings remain the same as on the old list on Majordomo. These rules may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. Just ignore anything about Majordomo. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
