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What is a fingerboard?

What is a fingerboard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) 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.
  2. A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers.
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It has 19 strings, extra fingerboard and its sound has a unique vibrancy combining the techniques of the sitar, the sarod and the veena.
On another occasion I labelled the complete fingerboard showing the notes at each and every fret position.
Pitch is determined by sliding the fingernail against the string rather than pressing it against a fingerboard.
His hands raced frenetically and gracefully up and down the fingerboard, offering now a nimble arpeggio or a powerful scale pattern.
Knees bent and her head bobbing, Liadan's fingers fairly fly across the fingerboard as she bends her pick out of shape.
Then do a down bow and watch the bow slide back to the fingerboard by the time one reaches the point.

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