单词 | sound-board |
释义 | sound-boardn. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > soundboard sound-board1504 sound-board1611 sounding-board1776 1504 in Herrig Archiv CXX. 425 Of þe monacorde..I assayde þe musykes..but none wold speke; þe sownd~borde was to hy. a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 478 But whoso in that instrumente [sc. the harp] hathe no speculacion, What restithe withyn the sownde bord hath but smale probacion. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trembloer, the Sound~boord of a Musicall Instrument. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §222 You may try it, without any Sound-board along, but onely Harp-wise, at one end of the strings. 1838 G. F. Graham Ess. Theory & Pract. Musical Composition Introd. p. v In both of these harps the sound-board seems to have been large and sonorous. 1874 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xi. 244 All are..shaken forth into the air by a second sound-board [in a piano]. 2. a. In an organ (see quot. 1881). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > soundboard sound-board1504 sound-board1611 sounding-board1776 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > soundboard sound-board1611 summer1659 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Canon,..the sound-boord of an Organ. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 709 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. View more context for this quotation 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 149 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. 1781 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 5747 The sound-board..is composed of two parts, the upper board or cover H H H, and the under board H I. 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 47 The great sound-board and wind-chest are of equal length. 1881 W. 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. 1879). ΚΠ 1879 G. Grove 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 n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > echo chamber or instrument whispering-placea1661 singing glass1669 sound-board1766 sounding-board1766 whispering-gallery1812 reverberation chamber1925 echo room1933 echo chamber1937 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 278 The sound-board is pendant from the roof of the church. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1033 Sound-Board, the same as a canopy or type over a pulpit, to reverberate the voice of the speaker. 4. Sound-boarding. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > sound-proofing material between joists sound-boarding1799 pugging1801 deafening1839 counter-ceiling1859 sound-board1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2247/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1504 |
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