Fingerboard

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  fingerboard \fingerboard\ n.
     1. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index
        finger.
  
     Syn: fingerpost.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument.
  
     Syn: piano keyboard, clavier.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed
        instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the
        strings are held against the wood with the fingers.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fingerboard
       n 1: a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
            [syn: {fingerpost}]
       2: a bank of keys on a musical instrument [syn: {piano keyboard},
           {clavier}]
       3: a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed
          instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the
          strings are held against the wood with the fingers

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "fingerboard":
     A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad,
     Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge,
     bull fiddle, cello, choir, claviature, console, contrabass, crowd,
     double bass, echo, eighty-eight, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick,
     great, ivories, keyboard, keys, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin,
     manual, organ manual, pedals, piano keys, scroll, solo, soundboard,
     string, swell, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violin, violinette,
     violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta