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    A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board. Sound holes have different shapes: Round in flat-top...
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    A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful...
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    rounded back, a wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The guitarra Latina had a single sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers...
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    around the sound hole of acoustic guitars. Only the positional markers on the fretboard or side of the neck and the rosette around the sound hole serve any...
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  • instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. While the original, general term for this stringed instrument...
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    he moved to Marin County, California and joined Sound Hole as a singer and saxophonist. Sound Hole was successful at a local level and became Van Morrison's...
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    usually one or more sound holes in the soundboard, either round, oval, or shaped like a calligraphic f (f-hole). A round or oval sound hole may be covered...
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    of a modern guitar extends down over the soundboard all the way to the sound hole. However, the lute guitar's fretboard may be on the same level as the...
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    there are two main sound holes, positioned on either side of the fingerboard extension. In the case of single-cone models, the sound holes are either both...
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    the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). However, the right-hand may move...
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    neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically...
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  • A sonic black hole, sometimes called a dumb hole or acoustic black hole, is a phenomenon in which phonons (sound perturbations) are unable to escape from...
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  • {3}{8L_{eq}D^{3}}}}} where D = diameter of sphere d = diameter of sound hole For a sphere with just a sound hole, L=0 and the surface of the sphere acts as a flange...
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    large body with squarish bouts, either a D-shaped or longitudinal oval sound hole, and a cutaway in the upper right bout. The strings pass over a movable...
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    Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1989. It was founded by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and guitarist...
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  • Buttonhole, a hole in fabric as part of a fastener Punchhole, a hole punched in paper, including punched cards and punched tape Sound hole, on a musical...
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  • Adamas model. The Adamas model dispersed the sound-hole of the traditional soundboard among 22 small sound holes in the upper chamber of the guitar, which...
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    body. Examples include models that feature sound holes, like the Gibson ES-335, and ones with no sound holes but hollow interior chambers, like the Gretsch...
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    classical guitar. Its neck is raised above the level of the sound box, and the sound hole is usually round, like cavaquinhos from Lisbon and Madeira....
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  • Native American flute (category Five tone hole wind instruments)
    has open finger holes, and has two chambers: one for collecting the breath of the player and a second chamber which creates sound. The player breathes...
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    the arched top and increasing body sizes, but still had round or oval sound holes. In 1922, Lloyd Loar was hired by the Gibson Company to redesign their...
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    solid top with no sound hole. All subsequent production short-scale 300-series Rickenbackers (310, 315, 320, 325) had sound holes until the late 1970s...
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    back in black block characters with his number displayed below in red sound-hole lettering with a silver border and black drop shadow. White pants with...
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  • Lenny Breau (Direct Disk Labs, 1979) The Legendary Lenny Breau... Now! (Sound Hole, 1979) Standard Brands with Chet Atkins (RCA Victor, 1981) Mo' Breau (Adelphi...
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    striking surface of the cajón drum is commonly referred to as the tapa. A sound hole is cut on the back side. The modern cajón may have rubber feet, and has...
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  • 2024-03-14. "Mario Cipollina". www.bay-area-bands.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14. "Sound Hole". www.bay-area-bands.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14. CORRESPONDENT, HELENA...
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    featuring the standard Rickenbacker slash-shaped sound hole, both guitars featured an f-shaped violin sound hole, which made these guitars instant collector's...
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    on a larger 'box-bridge' than the other type of eastern lyres, and the sound hole of the instrument was cut in the body of the lyre behind the box-bridge...
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    followed by an ink stamp of the model number. (e.g. L-R as seen through the sound hole: Serial number, "Brand," Model number.) The serial numbers on these instruments...
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  • developed ranges of guitars—some with conventional round sound holes, others with the paisley sound hole introduced on the Papoose (as the Wing Series). A recession...
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