Perception of sound

BillDL

There was one occasion way back around 1984 when I was doing a short folky "concert" in the small communal hall of a sheltered housing complex with my aunt on autoharp, my cousin on flute, and me on guitar.  My aunt, who was an opera singer, was going to sing a few opera songs solo and we were all going to do a few celtic and folk songs together.  I just took my dreadnought that I felt would be loud enough without an amp for the 20-odd people there and the size of the hall.  It was loud enough, but it was a really flat dead sound because of all the heavy curtains, soft furnishings, carpeted floor, etc.  I had one of those old Aspri Reverb gizmos in my case.  You placed it over the bridge and contacts touched the strings and created a mechanical spring reverb effect.  It saved the evening and gave the guitar a bit more lively ambience.  I don't know if you can still get those Aspri Reverb units now.  I would guess that the various devices along the lines of the Yamaha Trans-Acoustic's internal transducer has superseded such an old fashioned mechanical reverb.

I was going to find and post a photo of an Aspri Reverb after hunting for an ancient guitar magazine article or a used one for sale, but I'm really surprised to see that they still make and sell them.

https://www.aspri.com/

https://www.aspri.com/products/

bertie

thomasross20 said:

The plain answer above re face the bay I found funny. Same as the room woods being certified tonewoods as extension to soundboard lol

yeah but the latter "was" a joke........   the "bay window" thing came from reflection testing sound alone. at home  not to an audience,