Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pianoforte-making, the act, process, or result of arranging the strings in two sets, one of which, usually comprising the largest and longest strings, crosses obliquely over the other.
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Examples
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Messrs. Chickering assert, that the Russians were the first to employ successfully the device of "overstringing," as it is called, by which the bass strings are stretched over the others.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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In Grove's "Dictionary," I have given an approximate date to his overstringing as 1835, but reference to Boehm's correspondence with
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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Two distinct principles have been developed and combined -- the iron framing in a single casting, and the cross or overstringing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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The iron framing in a single casting is a distinctly American invention, but proceeding, like the overstringing, from a German by birth.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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The Steinway system of overstringing, however, was more extended, and solved the acoustical difficulties of cross-vibrations more successfully by spreading the long strings, and this, therefore, is the system now generally followed.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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The idea of overstringing was not new at this time, Lichtenberg, of St. Petersburg, having exhibited a grand piano with overstringing at the London exposition in 1851, and Theodore Boehm, the celebrated improver of the flute, having invented an overstrung system for square pianos as early as
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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