Word: soundboards
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...amphitheater is made of wood, and its vast roof arches gently overhead like the soundboard of a huge violin. It begins to resonate to the sonorities of Dvořák's Eighth Symphony. "Wood is the best acoustic material there is," Gottschalk says. "Concrete is dead. Wood is alive." Appearing peaceful and intent, hearing nothing that requires correction, he lets the Dvořák build and flow...
...riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center of the soundboard, which then amplified them as much as it did the long bass strings. The resulting increase in strength and power made the Steinway a world standard...
...came faster key action and a "diaphragmatic" soundboard that gave small pianos greater tonal volume. Later improvements have given much attention to cabinetry: this week Steinway unveils a new home-size grand with severely simplified lines, to match the simplicity of the latest modern furniture...
...horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days the U. S. Government provided an official soundboard from which outraged foes of Nazidom could vent their indignation against Hitlerite Germany. Some revelations pried out of pro-Nazi witnesses...
...Vermont's Gibson, New Mexico's Hatch-whom Mr. Garner will swear in on opening day, will soon learn that silence leads only to obscurity and defeat at the Capitol. Senator after Senator returned to let off accumulated six-months' blasts before their well-loved Washington soundboard...