How to Use fingerboard in a Sentence
fingerboard
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The ebony fingerboard has more brightness and snap than the rosewood used on most Fender electrics.
—Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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But his dexterity, the quickness with which his fingers danced along the fingerboard, had returned.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The shredding, fingerboard-tapping, dive-bombs and epic power-ballad solos.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2022
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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 | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
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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
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Seventeen frets split up a total of 102 buttons which correspond to a traditional six-string guitar fingerboard.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2010
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For Hawk, the beginner-friendly ethos of the fingerboard sets stems from the inclusivity skateboarding symbolizes in general.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 July 2022
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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
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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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