Etymology
Origin of overstring
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The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing."
From Time Magazine Archive
The iron framing in a single casting is a distinctly American invention, but proceeding, like the overstringing, from a German by birth.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
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.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
Two distinct principles have been developed and combined—the iron framing in a single casting, and the cross or overstringing.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Yes, overstrung, gaudily painted, honky tonk joannas for passersby to hammer out jazz standards on, which – naturally – many appeared to be able to do.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
Both teams were overstrung, playing crazily in their eagerness to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secure at last, his overstrung nerves relaxed and he slid gratefully over the edge of sleep.
From Native Son by Hamm, T. D.
For no very evident reason, except that he was overstrung, he could have shouted in alarm as he lay upon the wet flooring in the dark.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold
Philippa followed her, blindly, stumblingly, for her knees were shaking now, and there was such an air of resentment in the other's demeanour that it jarred upon her overstrung nerves.
From East of the Shadows by Barclay, Hubert, Mrs.
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