Talk:Sound board (music)

Do pianos have one too, or does it have a different name?


 * I don't know. In Russian they both have the same name and it's obviously an acception from Italian (or French or some other Latin-based language). What's about English - I don't know. You shoud probably ask Google for this =) Arseni


 * Yes, pianos definitely have soundboards. How else do you think their sound is produced? +ILike2BeAnonymous 02:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Clean up article
I removed the fluff/nonsense about "resonance", which has little, if anything, to do with how a soundboard works. Resonance is a specific aspect of sound mechanics which has to do with the frequency of maximum amplitude of a system. What happens with a soundboard is actually much simpler: it has a larger surface area than a string alone, and therefore can move a larger volume of air, hence a higher volume of sound.

Also removed this business of instruments having "two soundboards". While it's true that the back of an instrument (say, guitar or violin family) has a profound effect on the sound, the back isn't a soundboard per se, but rather just another part of the instrument that happens to vibrate. (Here, resonance does play a part, although the physics involved aren't simple at all.) +ILike2BeAnonymous 02:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Plate vs. Soundboard
The "plate" in a piano is not the soundboard, it's the heavy cast-iron frame that maintains the tension of the strings. (See Piano). 151.201.225.237 (talk) 19:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * And hence the word "plate" shouldn't be used to describe what the sound board in a piano is. Who would like to fix that sentence? —Wegesrand (talk) 12:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

A soundboard is not an amplifier
An amplifier is a device that adds energy to a signal. A soundboard is passive, it does not add any energy (indeed, a bad soundboard robs the signal of energy). A soundboard makes a vibrating thing (e.g., a string or a tuning fork) sound louder because it provides an effective path to couple the vibrational energy of the thing to the air. 151.201.225.237 (talk) 20:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki Link
The interwiki link to the German article Korpus (Musikinstrument) is not correct. "Korpus" is the term for the whole body of an instrument. This article should link to Decke (Saiteninstrument) instead. --91.34.45.85 (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

"Decke" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Decke and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 5 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ev iolite  (talk)  23:40, 5 March 2022 (UTC)