0 the long strip of wood on a stringed musical instrument against which the strings are pressed by the fingers in order to change the note that is played:
Guitars and banjos have fingerboards.
The string stays away from the fingerboard while the middle finger of the same hand pinches the string.
In this exercise, the player touches the fingerboard without employing the bow.
Presuming that the curve of the fingerboard is increased to match, stopping adjacent strings with the same finger (barring) is easier.
A string plucked bowed and repitched using a fingerboard and 'finger'.
Fingertip placement on a fingerboard, driving pitch, is a proportional control.
Salmon proposed to deal with the problem of changing keys by providing an interchangeable set of suitably fretted fingerboards, each arranged for a particular key and its relative minor.
It normally has 8 to 10 frets which stop at the point where the fingerboard meets the top.
On a fretted bass, the frets divide the fingerboard into semitone divisions (as on a guitar).
