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noun

Sounding-board n.

(Mus.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.

A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

pl. See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.

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Etymology of 'Sounding-board'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sounding-board" Quotes from Famous Books

... the brain, by reason of its functional inactivity, vibrates little or not at all in its higher centres; it plays the part of a sounding-board at rest, capable of vibrating sympathetically under the influence of a similar board placed ...

— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... Mabel and Lucy overrated Francis Lingen's attentions. I don't think that they amounted to much more than providing himself with a sounding-board, and occasional looking-glass. He loved to talk, and to know himself listened to; he loved to look and to know himself looked at. You learned a lot about yourself that way. You saw how your things were taken. A ...

— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... said there was no tick-tack. It is terrible to hear it in my ear any moment when I least expect it. Tick-tack! Tick-tack! It is the blood beating in my ear, for instance, hard, as if it struck on a sounding-board. Why, here are drops of perspiration on my ...

— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux

... patriot and tone-poet who explored harmonic vastness of pianoforte. Like exquisitely constructed sounding-board. Enriched and spiritualized the pianoforte for all time. Universal rather than individual experiences. National tonality. Zwyny and Elsner. Intimate acquaintance with Bach. Prince Charming of the piano. Liszt on Chopin. Raphael of music. Playing and teaching. Tempo rubato. ...

— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

... this annotator and illustrator of Dante, this disciple of Savonarola, has in our times been definitely ranged as a spirit saturated with paganism, and still a mystic. Doesn't the perverse clash in such a complex temperament give us exotic dissonances? All Florence was a sounding-board of the arts when Botticelli walked its narrow ways and lived its splendid coloured life. His sensitive nature absorbed as a sponge does water the impulses and motives of his contemporaries. The lurking ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker