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UK
/fˈɪŋɡəbˌɔːd/
]
[ US /ˈfɪŋɡɝˌbɔɹd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪŋɡɝˌbɔɹd/ ]
NOUN
- a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
- a bank of keys on a musical instrument
- a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
How To Use fingerboard In A Sentence
- To avoid acquiring a reputation for splitting hairs I would like to emphasize that one can certainly live with a conventional fingerboard, provided it is precisely made.
- Consequently, holly is often used for the black keys on pianos and organs and for the pegs and fingerboards on violins.
- I put this down to the use of rosewood for the fingerboard and the addition of some extra internal bracing.
- This huge instrument - played by a system of moveable keys pressing the strings on the fingerboard, activated by levers and pedals - in fact only sounded a mere octave lower than the cello.
- It has 19 strings, extra fingerboard and its sound has a unique vibrancy combining the techniques of the sitar, the sarod and the veena.
- The fingerboard is rosewood with the somewhat imposing lightning bolt inlays which share the blue livery chosen for this particular model.
- It has a fairly light basswood body, a knife edge whammy which has three springs tightened down and maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard.
- The pipa is a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard.
- The archlute and the chitarrone or theorbo had, in addition to the strings on the fingerboard, open bass strings on an extended neck with a second pegbox.
- The pipa is a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard.
