Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Sound board (music)

Index Sound board (music)

A sound board, or soundboard, is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge. [1]

22 relations: Banjo, Bridge (instrument), Ernst Chladni, Guitar, Harp, Harpsichord, Loudness, Lute, Mandolin, Maple, Pear, Piano, Piano acoustics, Rosette (design), Softwood, Sound hole, Spruce, String instrument, Timbre, Tonewood, Tuning fork, Violin.

Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Banjo · See more »

Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Bridge (instrument) · See more »

Ernst Chladni

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Ernst Chladni · See more »

Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Guitar · See more »

Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Harp · See more »

Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Harpsichord · See more »

Loudness

In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Loudness · See more »

Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Lute · See more »

Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

New!!: Sound board (music) and Mandolin · See more »

Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Maple · See more »

Pear

The pear is any of several tree and shrub species of genus Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Pear · See more »

Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Piano · See more »

Piano acoustics

Piano acoustics are the physical properties of the piano that affect its sound.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Piano acoustics · See more »

Rosette (design)

A rosette is a round, stylized flower design.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Rosette (design) · See more »

Softwood

Scots Pine, a typical and well-known softwood Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Softwood · See more »

Sound hole

A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Sound hole · See more »

Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Spruce · See more »

String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

New!!: Sound board (music) and String instrument · See more »

Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Timbre · See more »

Tonewood

Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties that possess tonal properties that make them good choices for use in acoustic stringed instruments.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Tonewood · See more »

Tuning fork

A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).

New!!: Sound board (music) and Tuning fork · See more »

Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

New!!: Sound board (music) and Violin · See more »

Redirects here:

Piano armonico, Resonanzboden, Sound table, Sound-table, Soundboard (music), Soundtable, Table (music), Table d'harmonie, Table d’harmonie, Tavola armonica.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_board_(music)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »