What is "soundbox"

Usage examples of "soundbox".

There was a scratch along the length of the soundbox, but the damage had been expertly smoothed and buffed.

With her hand on the soundbox, Christa sensed a faint, almost subliminal emotion in it.

The soundbox was cracked, and some of the dusty wood was rotten and patched with mildew.

She remembered her little gothic instrument, tried to forget the cracked wood, the smashed soundbox, the curling spirals of broken strings.

The soundbox was scarred and showed the signs of much abuse, the thin wood having been patched many times over.

Here was volume that the sea itself would have been hard pressed to match, and here was music that had never sounded from bronze strings and willow soundboxes, music that screamed and rumbled, music that filled the club as strong mead might fill a wooden cup.

Their working clothes were now in order, and they were moving on to the fine work: it was known that church was to be rigged on Sunday -Mr Martin was already leading some of the better voices through the Old Hundredth in the empty fore-hold and the deck vibrated like the soundbox of some vast instrument - and it was thought that the Dromedaries would attend dressed fancy.

It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.