string-block

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noun In pianoforte-making, the wooden block into which are driven the studs for holding the loops of the ends of the strings furthest from the tuning-pins.

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Cristofori instruments, wrest plank, sound-board, string-block, and action; the harpsichord scale of stringing being still retained.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
The object of the patent was a combination of metal tubes with metal plates, the metallic tubes extending from the plates which were attached to the string-block to the wrest-plank.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
He ran a string-block round the case, entirely independent of the sound-board, and his wrest-plank, which also became

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various