Talk:Sounding board

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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)

[edit] 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)