bass-bar

American  

[beys-bahr] / ˈbeɪsˌbɑr /

noun

1. a strip of wood glued lengthwise inside the belly of instruments of the violin family, used to spread vibrations over the surface.

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Etymology

Origin of bass-bar

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Thus I have become acquainted with several artists who constantly tortured their violins by getting the sounding post and bass-bar displaced.

From George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General by Gem?nder, George

With the failure of the bass-bar the belly collapsed, and the wood broke across the grain in so extraordinary a manner as to put the fiddle beyond repair, except as a curiosity.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade

It was, after all, perhaps not so serious a matter, for, as I have said, the bass-bar had given way.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade

If we accept the bass-bar as the nervous system of a Violin, the sound-post may be said to perform the functions of the heart with unerring regularity.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George