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The sound hole is not open, but rather covered with a grille in the form of an intertwining vine or a decorative knot, carved directly out of the wood of the soundboard. The geometry of the lute soundboard is relatively complex, involving a system of barring that places braces perpendicular to the strings at specific lengths along the overall ...
Thanks to the popularization of online videogames and communication tools through the Internet, different soundboard software has appeared. Note the following developments: EXP Soundboard (open source and compatible with WAV and MP3 audio files) Soundpad, or with more features Noise-o-matic, Resanance or Voicemod (combining a voice changer, a voice generator and a soundboard in the same app.)
String instrument; Other names: Gambus: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 321.321 (Necked-bowl lute, instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments), in which the resonator and string bearer are physically united and can not be separated without destroying the instrument, in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table ...
Soundboard (music), a part of a musical instrument; Sounding board, an attachment to a pulpit to assist a human speaker; Mixing console, used to combine electronic audio signals; Soundboard (computer program), a web application or computer program with buttons that play short, often humorous sound clips
Molo is the name given to a lute by the Hausa people of Niger and northern Nigeria and the Songhay people of Niger. [1] In Ghana, it is called Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli. [2] Molo is the name used for a specific type of African lute, one that has a boat-shaped body or soundbox, carved from wood and a round dowel for a neck. [1]
The Khushtar has a body made of staves like a lute or oud. These staves are usually made of mulberry or apricot wood. The soundboard is usually made of pine. The instrument will often have a carving of a bird on the top of the head scroll. The pegs are often made of walnut wood.
The soundboard has additionally frets laid on it under the main melody string, approximately 11 or 12 frets. The sataer is strung with between 9 and 17 sympathetic strings which are not played directly but vibrate in reaction to the melody string, in sympathetic resonance. [2] A single melody string is set apart from the sympathetic strings.
The barbat (Persian: بربت) or barbud is a lute of Greater Iranian or Persian origin, and widespread across Central Asia, especially since the Sassanid Empire. [1] Barbat is characterized as carved from a single piece of wood, including the neck and a wooden sound board. [1]