Definitions for fingerboard

fingerboard fin·ger·board

Spelling: [fing-ger-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈfɪŋ gərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Fingerboard is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1056 anagrams from letters in fingerboard (abdefginorr).

Definitions for fingerboard

noun

  1. (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  2. keyboard.

Origin of fingerboard

First recorded in 1665-75; finger + board

Examples for fingerboard

The tuning of the strings on the fingerboard of the barytone was on the same principle as that of the gamba.

Of the division of the fingerboard into diatonic as well as chromatic tones; 6.

As the stroke proceeds the pressure is gradually withdrawn, the bow moves more slowly, and approaches the fingerboard.

I have wood guard 31 ready for protection of fingerboard, and 32, for the back, and one of No. 11 cramps.

They were at first limited to the lower part of the fingerboard, as was the case primarily with the violin.

The neck and fingerboard are made of hard wood, such as ebony, beech or pear.

At a point near the present Norton station, called the fingerboard, there was a route to Fredericton.

The correct positions for stopping the intervals are marked on the fingerboard by little metal ridges called frets.

Of course, I round the fingerboard's edges somewhat, and clean on each occasion of wetting.

Then on the nut, cut the narrow channels over which the strings have to pass to the fingerboard.

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