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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pianoforte-making, the metal plate which carries the string-block. It was originally made separate, but is now combined in a single casting with the entire frame.
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Two tension bars sufficed, neither of them breaking into the scale: the first, nearly straight, being almost parallel with the lowest bass string; the second, presenting the new feature of a diagonal bar crossed from the bass corner to the string-plate, with its thrust at an angle to the strings.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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