[TheForge] RE: triangles

[Devon Headen]

> The empirical thing is fine but no one has explained why a higher
> carbon or heat treated triangle would be louder.

I don't have a lot of experience with the acoustic properties of metal, but wood I do. I build guitars. The denser and more rigid the wood, the more sustain you will have (not saying a maple guitar always has more sustain than mahogany, but if all of the joints/vibration transfer points were identacal it would be). Since higher carbon context means more rigidity (not sure about density here), I reasoned that higher carbon content = louder and longer sustaining dinner bell. Somebody straighten me out if I'm wrong.