Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sounding board is the largest part of string musical instruments body, which produces sound by resonance. Most instruments have two sounding boards: the upper and the lower ones. Some folk instruments have only one sounding board. Upper sounding board usually has some resonant holes in it, which can have different shape (round in guitar, f-holes in violin family instruments, rosette in lute etc.). In different instruments sounding board can have various particular names like plate, belly (in violin) etc. See also: ribs This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.