How to Use fingerboard in a Sentence

fingerboard

noun

• The ebony fingerboard has more brightness and snap than the rosewood used on most Fender electrics.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2019
• The players use only open strings, meaning that their left hands, which change the notes on the fingerboard, are rendered useless.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2021
• Ebony is the only wood the company uses for its fretboards, the part of the guitar also known as fingerboards.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
• Jared also supplied ebony from his father’s studio for the fingerboard, bridge and binding, and Richard’s chisels for the tuner buttons.
  — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• But his dexterity, the quickness with which his fingers danced along the fingerboard, had returned.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2019
• The humid weather is no friend to violins, which may have explained a few of the sour notes near the top of the fingerboard, but there was little symbiosis between Bell and the orchestra.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• This one with a solid brass fingerboard scalloped to facilitate the sort of string bending guitar-guru John McLaughlin was doing at the time.
  — Matt Wake, AL.com, 20 June 2017
• From a distance, a gamba looks a bit like a cello, but with sloping, rather than rounded, shoulders and a wider fingerboard under six or seven strings (versus the cello’s four).
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
• The shredding, fingerboard-tapping, dive-bombs and epic power-ballad solos.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Isbell Custom Tele’s boasts a ‘59-style body, chocolate sunburst finish, cream double-binding, maple neck and 21-fret rosewood fingerboard.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2021
• Other ice-like sounds included dryly plucking the strings above the left hand; sliding fingers up and down the fingerboard, creating an airy sound; and bowing the wood, bridges and tailpieces of their instruments.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• The violin solo runs up and down the ebony fingerboard, conjuring the feeling of feet slipping on thin ice, bodies crashing into snowy embankments.
  — Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Seventeen frets split up a total of 102 buttons which correspond to a traditional six-string guitar fingerboard.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2010
• For Hawk, the beginner-friendly ethos of the fingerboard sets stems from the inclusivity skateboarding symbolizes in general.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 July 2022
• The players' fingers never touched the sound fingerboards of their instruments, producing pure harmonic that seemed to set the entire gallery vibrating in some mysteriously shamanistic way.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• Concertmaster Rubén Rengel relished his spotlight moment with a growling solo that covered almost the entire fingerboard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019

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