Essays about: "Soundboard material"

Found 1 essay containing the words Soundboard material.

  1. 1. SOUNDING WOOD, Tonal differences of woods employed in historical soundboards

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Fabio Rigali; [2016-01-02]
    Keywords : Harpsichord; Clavichord; Soundboard material; Wood properties;

    Abstract : This work starts giving a short introduction about woodworking and devotes the second chapter to collecting and commenting historical sources dealing with wood used in stringed keyboard instruments. In the following part, looking both at sources and extant instruments, an approximate atlas of the wood types used in various building traditions is sketched; natural range and features of the most important trees used in soundboards are also given. READ MORE