Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical instruments, a thin resonant plate of wood so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tones by sympathetic vibration.
- noun Same as
sounding-board - noun See cut under
abat-voix . - noun In organ-building, same as
wind-chest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sounding-board.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument
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Examples
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You will also be asked to become a critic (a biased one, none the less … who is not beneath taking bribes), a sound-board, a gentle (or not so) prodder, and an idea generator.
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Some people choose a violin to make their music and another chooses a sound-board.
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Three Boulder High kids meanwhile were working the auditorium sound-board in the middle of the room, providing a low-level Bob Marley background thrum for the pre-event.
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Several private cubicles had been built into the back wall, complete with computer and sound-board hookups.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
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We know, with less exactness, that the sound-board follows similar laws.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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Cristofori instruments, wrest plank, sound-board, string-block, and action; the harpsichord scale of stringing being still retained.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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If the bridge and sound-board be heavily weighted with thick strings, vibration will surely be checked.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart
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We have already seen how readily the strings take up vibrations which are only pure when, as secondary vibrations, they arise by reversion from the sound-board.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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Beech England Wrest-plank, bridge or sound-board, centre of legs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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The sound-board itself is made of most carefully chosen pine; in Europe of the _Abies excelsa_, the spruce fir, which, when well grown, and of light, even grain, is the best of all woods for resonance.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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