• 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...
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  • A fingerboard is a scaled-down replica of a skateboard that a person "rides" with their fingers, rather than their feet. A fingerboard is typically 100...
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    The Continuum Fingerboard or Haken Continuum is a music performance controller and synthesizer developed by Lippold Haken, a professor of Electrical and...
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  • Look up fingerboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fingerboard is a part of a string instrument. Fingerboard may also refer to: Fingerboard (skateboard)...
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    Fingerboard Croix Sonore Denis d'or Dubreq stylophone Drum machine Electric guitar Electronic keyboard Digital piano Electronic organ EWI Fingerboard...
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    including maple for the back, spruce for the top, and ebony for the fingerboard. It is uncertain whether the instrument is a descendant of the viola...
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    of wood, usually maple. The fingerboard is glued to the neck and extends over the body of the instrument. The fingerboard is given a curved shape, matching...
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    A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating...
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    each side) as the strikers, are plastic rings. As the South African fingerboard, it has larger pockets.[citation needed] Bangladesh Carrom Federation...
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    A multi-scale fingerboard (also called multiple scale length fretboard) is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. This allows...
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  • Fingerboard Mountain is a mountain located southeast of the hamlet of Central Valley in Orange County, New York. In 1928, a 60-foot-tall (18 m) Aermotor...
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    with the fingernails or a plectrum, strumming and even "tapping" on the fingerboard and using feedback from a loud, distorted guitar amplifier to produce...
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    Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (each of which uses a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither...
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  • as well. In 1975, Gibson began making a number of Customs with maple fingerboards, instead of the typical ebony, which was discontinued by the early 1980s...
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    1960s) and oval-shaped tuning machines. Block-shaped fingerboard inlays and an optional maple fingerboard were introduced after 1966/67. At first, necks with...
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    morisca (Moorish guitar). The guitarra morisca had a rounded back, a wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The guitarra Latina had a single sound hole...
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    neck and fingerboard can be made from different materials; for example, a guitar may have a maple neck with a rosewood or ebony fingerboard. Today there...
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  • headstock with six tuning pegs mounted inline along a single side; the fingerboard may be maple or another wood, e.g., rosewood, and has at least twenty-one...
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    humbucking pickup and a one-piece, 20-fret maple neck with rosewood or maple fingerboard. Its prototype, designed by Leo Fender in 1950, was brought to market...
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    The neck is either flat or has a slight radius, and is covered with a fingerboard with frets. The action of the strings on the bridge causes the soundboard...
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    intonation, other basses may have only inlay dots or nothing at all on the fingerboard. While many fretless players use flatwound or tapewound strings as they...
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    slapping and pulling the strings to make a rhythmic slap sound against the fingerboard. The slap style cuts through the sound of a band better than simply plucking...
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    Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic. The Appalachian dulcimer has...
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    headstock (of the ‘non-reverse’ style), split diamond inlays on the fingerboard, a trapeze tailpiece with a plaque with Trini Lopez's name, and a standard...
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    switch, coil splitter, 1 volume, 1 TBX, System III tremolo, rosewood fingerboard, 25.5" scale length, side-mounted output jack. 27-5800: 2 humbucking...
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  • maple fingerboard, 22 medium-jumbo frets, rolled fingerboard edges, and highly detailed nut and fret work. The HH model sported an ebony fingerboard, quilted...
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    these two extremes, for example 34", like a long scale bass guitar. The fingerboard extends over two octaves and usually has side dots for the player's reference...
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    increasing the width of the fingerboard such that the additional string may be fretted by the left hand; or, by leaving the fingerboard unchanged and adding...
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    others. Gilmour purchased the guitar, a 1969 model with a maple cap fingerboard and large headstock, in 1970 from Manny's Music in New York City to replace...
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  • Fingerboard Corner (also The Finger Board Corner) is an unincorporated community in Cheboygan County, Michigan, United States. "Fingerboard Corner, Michigan"...
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