Erard was the first to make it in two pieces of wood, generally sycamore, with the addition of a flat soundboard of Swiss pine.
Guitar or pizzicato notes are obtained by twanging the strings sharply at the lower end near the soundboard with the nails.
An old Welsh harp, not triple strung, exists, which bears a great resemblance to the Irish harp in neck, soundboard and soundholes.
The layout of the soundboardin figure 6 gives the relative positions of the bridges, tuning pins, hitch pins, strings, jacks, and jack rail.
The two ribs are attached to the underside of the soundboard in the positions indicated.
The soundboard does not have a rose, although that decorative device is fairly common on Italian harpsichords.
On the soundboardappears the Latin inscription Vita brevis, ars longa.
The jack guide, built up of separate pieces held together by long strips down either side, is glued to the underside of the soundboard and extends as far as the lining in the treble but stops a little short of it in the bass (fig.
The soundboard bridge measures about 3/8" by 1/4" and has virtually no taper.
The wrest plank is veneered with cypress, giving the appearance that the soundboard extends over it.
The manner in which variations in thickness are distributed over the entire soundboard has not been determined.
The very thin sides of the virginal are held together at the corners by blocks, and the soundboard is supported by a lining.
The soundboard is glued to the top of the belly rail.
Block-printed papers cover the interior of the case; the inside of the lid bears a Latin motto and the soundboard is painted with flowers and arabesques.
In the clavichord the strings extend over a soundboard bridge on the player's right and are damped (stopped from vibrating) by strips of cloth on the left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soundboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
