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soundtable

soundtable noun: a thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.

Noun

soundtable (plural soundtables)

  1. A thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.
    • It has a short neck, a shallow oval wooden body, and a soundhole on the upper soundtable. The number of strings varies; four to eight bass (bunti) strings on the neck, plucked by the left hand, and seven to 30 metal strings (pidstrunki, tuned chromatically) across the soundtable, plucked by the...2014, Sofia Hrytsa, “Bandura”, in Laurence Libin, editor, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 219

Forms of soundtable

pluralsoundtables

Origin of soundtable

From sound + table.

Questions about soundtable

What does soundtable mean?
Soundtable means a thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.
What part of speech is soundtable?
Soundtable is a noun.
What is the plural of soundtable?
The plural of soundtable is soundtables.

Words near soundtable in the dictionary

  1. soundstage
  2. soundstages
  3. soundstagey
  4. soundsystem
  5. soundsystems
  6. soundtable
  7. soundtables
  8. soundtrack
  9. soundtracked
  10. soundtracker
  11. soundtrackers

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