soundtable

English

Etymology

From sound +‎ table.

Noun

soundtable (plural soundtables)

  1. (music) A thin surface covering the opening of the sound box of a string instrument, which vibrates and amplifies the sound produced by the instrument.
    Coordinate term: soundboard
    • 2014, Sofia Hrytsa, “Bandura”, in Laurence Libin, editor, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 219:
      It has a short neck, a shallow oval wooden body, and a soundhole on the upper soundtable. The number of strings varies; four to eight bass (bunti) strings on the neck, plucked by the left hand, and seven to 30 metal strings (pidstrunki, tuned chromatically) across the soundtable, plucked by the right hand.
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