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

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

nough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patie…

A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.

ic used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it.