soundboard

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Examples

• The soundboard, which the violinist holds, takes the vibration of the strings and projects it out as sound.

• Figure 10 shows the layout of ribs, bridges, and strings on the soundboard.

• The bridges served to direct the course of the strings and to conduct the sound waves to the soundboard.

• 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.

• We now arrive at this joining of the wood for the soundboard, and the glue to be used must be of the best.