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Violin part
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fingerboard
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments . It is a thin, long strip of material, usually wood, that is laminated to the front of the neck of an instrument. The strings run ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger [syn: fingerpost ] a bank of keys on a musical instrument [syn: piano keyboard , clavier ] a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches. 2 A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As before, the neck is oil-finished maple, but this time the fingerboard is rosewood. ▪ I put this down to the use of rosewood for the fingerboard and the addition of some extra internal bracing. ▪ Rosewood has been used for ...
Usage examples of fingerboard.
She played the violin mostly with her fingers, but sometimes she used a mental touch to produce a harmonic, which did not require that the string be pressed against the fingerboard but merely touched at a vibrational node to damp the fundamental tone while allowing the whispery overtone to sound.
Here…” She cut loose a blinding flurry of licks that screamed from one end of the fingerboard to the other in less than a second.