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sound-board
Also 6 sownd-borde, sownde-bord, 7 sound-boord.
[sound n.3]
1. A thin board or piece of wood forming part of a musical instrument and placed in such a position as to strengthen or increase its sound.
15..Proverbis in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 406 But whoso in that instrumente [sc. the harp] hathe no speculacion, What restithe withyn the sownde-bord hath but smale relacion. 1504in Herrig Archiv CXX. 425 Of þe monacorde..I assayde þe musykes..but none wold speke; þe sownd⁓borde was to hy. 1611Cotgr., Trembloer, the Sound⁓boord of a Musicall Instrument. 1626Bacon Sylva §222 You may try it, without any Sound-board along, but onely Harp-wise, at one end of the strings. 1838G. F. Graham The. & Pract. Mus. Comp. Introd. p. v, In both of these harps the sound-board seems to have been large and sonorous. 1874Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xi. 244 All are..shaken forth into the air by a second sound-board [in a piano].
attrib.1889Brinsmead Hist. Pianoforte 171 Materially elongating the sound-board bridges.
2. a. In an organ (see quot. 1881).
1611Cotgr., Canon,..the sound-boord of an Organ. 1667Milton P.L. i. 709 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxii. 320 The Manner of fastning the Organ-Tongue to its Mortise, is by Parchment and Leather glu'd to its Surface, and also to the Sound-Board. 1781Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) VIII. 5747 The sound-board..is composed of two parts, the upper board or cover H H H, and the under board H I. 1852Seidel Organ 47 The great sound-board and wind-chest are of equal length. 1881W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-Building iii. 29 The sound⁓board is a shallow box, divided internally into as many transverse grooves or channels as there are notes on the key-board.
b. In a harmonium (see quot.).
1879Grove's Dict. Music I. 668/1 Above the bellows-board is the ‘pan’, sometimes erroneously called the soundboard, a board of graduated thickness in which are the channels..determining..the different timbres.
3. = sounding-board 1.
1766Entick London IV. 278 The sound-board is pendant from the roof of the church. 1842Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Sound-board, the same as a canopy or type over a pulpit, to reverberate the voice of the speaker.
transf.1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 165 These thin partitions are only soundboards for the voice.
4. Sound-boarding.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech. 2247/2. |