soundpost

/ ˈsaʊndˌpəʊst /

noun

1. music a small post, usually of pine, on guitars, violins, etc, that joins the front surface to the back, helps to support the bridge, and allows the whole body of the instrument to vibrate

Example Sentences

Soundpost Partners, a New York-based hedge fund that wouldn't disclose its size, increased its allocation to Lending Club loans twice in the past year and now has more than $2 million invested on the platform, says David Roeske, an investment analyst for Soundpost.

From Wall Street Journal

Then, with a slender tool, he might reach inside the instrument and, almost imperceptibly, move one of its vital internal organs — the soundpost, the wooden dowel that fits between the top and the back and transmits vibrations from one to the other.

From New York Times

Knowing the soundpost would be certainly shifted occasionally, he saw in the very flat model a source of danger lurking in the difficulty of seeing and getting at the post, even with the usual appliances at the command of the professional repairer or regulator, while the sound holes would be much more liable to damage than when the sufficiently raised arching permits a fair use of the "post setter."

From Project Gutenberg

When she died," said he in a very hoarse solemn voice, "when she died, the soundpost of that violin broke into pieces with a ringing crack, and the sound-board was split from end to end.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, take the thickness for granted; but follow me very closely while I describe to you how I arrive at the depth being just what I want and sought for to obtain the note B before the soundpost is inserted, when you blow in the f, C, after it is fixed.

From Project Gutenberg