source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:42:12 -0800 Subject: feedback From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) From: PAULE Graham Breed, The electric guitar feeds back because the pickups directly amplify the magnetic fluctuations of the speaker cone. Sound is not the cause of this feedback mechanism. >As electric guitars aren't >designed to have resonatins sound boards, If they aren't, why are mahogany guitars with maple tops so prized? -Paul Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:45 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03379; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 21:45:18 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03382 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA15229; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:43:08 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:43:08 -0800 Message-Id: <009B0BA3EEC5A03B.5883@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu