Say, who is this Hemholtz guy? Is he a member? Maybe he'll post.
This is interesting. I am learning a lot about backs in this thread. My impression had been that the back could be extremely stiff (and therefore thick) as long as it had good acoustic properties (between the extremes of absorbibg sound and echoing too freely) and was attached in a manner that had no dampening effect on the top. I got this from comments made by builders saying it was mostly the top and the back's job was to not screw up the job the top does (I am paraphrasing).
"First you master your instrument, then you master the music, then you forget about all that ... and just play"
Charlie "Bird" Parker
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