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Definition of Soundboards
1. soundboard [n] - See also: soundboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soundboards
Literary usage of Soundboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"... with two soundboards, each with it« scale of strings—on the one side overspun
catgut, on the other, wire. There were 185 strings in all, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"... became about 1697 a virtuoso upon the dulcimer, which he quadrupled in dimensions
and had constructed as a double hackbrett with two soundboards, ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1878)
"soundboards for Violin. I should be much obliged by jonr favouring me with your
opinion of the probable effect of the inclosed arrangement of two ..."
4. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1872)
"On referring to the drawing, it will be seen the eaid bellies—or rather
soundboards (there can be no need to belly them, so we will belay all that)—might ..."
5. Organs and Tuning: A Practical Handbook for Organists, Being a Treatise on by Thomas Elliston (1898)
"Short soundboards mean robbing of wind, and crowding of pipes. Long soundboards
involve long rollers and action, which old organ builders sought to avoid. ..."
6. Pianos and Their Makers by Alfred Dolge (1911)
"soundboards The manufacture of lumber for soundboards has been followed up as a
specialty for over 100 years. The first specialists in this line were owners ..."
7. The English Mechanic and World of Science (1884)
"306, he will find that I have admitted that a " slight " difference does sometimes
exist in soundboards ; but the difference is so slight that it is really ..."
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