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Fingerboard meaning
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. | A miniature skateboard or snowboard that is propelled by the fingers. | Synonym of hangboard (“device for building finger strength”).
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The main notes are either played normally or by pulling the string away from the fingerboard and releasing it so that it bounces off the fingerboard, producing a distinctive percussive attack in addition to the expected pitch.
The neck and fingerboard can be made from different materials; for example, a guitar may have a maple neck with a rosewood or ebony fingerboard.
Guitar industry veteran Roger Cooper of The Fingerboard Extension in Corvallis, Oregon, tries out an aesthetically innovative Larrivee parlor guitar.
He said the front and back are gingerbread, but the sides, tuning pegs and fingerboard are all chocolate.
A hardwood fingerboard sits on top of or is flush with the sound table.
Also, the position of the saddle, usually a strip of bone or plastic that supports the strings off the bridge, determines the distance to the nut (at the top of the fingerboard).
Also, the space between notes on the fingerboard is large, due to scale length and string spacing, so players must hold their fingers apart for the notes in the lower positions and shift positions frequently to play basslines.
An extension nut may be used to achieve the higher string height at the peghead end of the fingerboard.
Another commonly used marking technique uses dots of white-out on the fingerboard, which wear off in a few weeks of regular practice.
As a performance technique, it is accomplished by using two fingers on the fingerboard, the first to shorten the string to the desired fundamental, with the second touching the node corresponding to the appropriate harmonic.
A string may be tuned down by pulling it above the fingerboard, or tuned up by pressing the part of the string in the pegbox.
A trill initiated from just hammering the finger up and down on the fingerboard will create a harsher quality than with a vibrato trill.
Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings to produce a rhythmic "slap" sound against the fingerboard.
Because of the short fifth string, the five-string banjo uses a reentrant tuning —the string pitches don't proceed lowest to highest across the fingerboard.
Because of this effect, you can raise and change the pitch of a string by pressing it against the fingerboard in the cello’s neck and effectively shortening it.
Beginners sometimes rely on tapes placed on the fingerboard for proper left hand finger placement, but usually abandon the tapes quickly as they advance.
Ebonised parts such as tuning pegs may crack or split, and the black surface of the fingerboard will eventually wear down to reveal the lighter wood underneath.
Frets main Frets are the metal strips (usually nickel alloy or stainless steel) embedded along the fingerboard and placed at points that divide the length of string mathematically.
Fretted and fretless basses A fretless bass with flatwound strings; markers are inlaid into the side of the fingerboard, to aid the performer in finding the correct pitch.
He has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical".