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 Translation for 'fingerboard' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a fingerboard | fingerboards
SYNO clavier | fingerboard | fingerpost | ...
mus.
gripebrett {n}
fingerboard
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Translation for 'fingerboard' from English to Norwegian

fingerboard
gripebrett {n}mus.
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Usage Examples English
  • The technique consists of plucking the string away from the fingerboard with the right hand with sufficient force to cause it to snap back and strike the fingerboard creating a snapping sound in addition to the pitch itself.
  • All early models were made of Alder, using a Maple neck and an Ebony fingerboard.
  • Relief, or profile, refers to the amount of curvature in the fingerboard of a guitar or other similar stringed instrument.
  • Some electric guitar necks do not have a separate piece of wood for the fingerboard surface.
  • Over the years, he has employed various other extended techniques, such as deliberately pulling the strings over the edges of the fingerboard (creating a distinctive buzzing rattle) and thumb-on-the-fingerboard left hand technique to achieve wider-interval double stops than are normally possible.

  • This lever system, which superficially resembles the keying mechanism of reed instruments such as the bassoon, mounts levers beside the regular fingerboard (near the nut, on the E-string side), which remotely activate metal "fingers" on the extension fingerboard.
  • Gradually the Simpson design was transformed by Portuguese luthiers, with a wider body, longer scale length, and a wider fingerboard, made more manageable by using a large radius, rather than a flat fingerboard.
  • The fingerboard inlays are inlaid mother-of-pearl blocks, beginning at the first position of the fretboard.
  • He plays using the percussive rockabilly/psychobilly bass technique known as slap bass, in which the strings are pulled away from the fingerboard until they snap back, and the strings are rhythmically slapped against the fingerboard.
  • Acoustic violins may be used with an add-on piezoelectric bridge or body pickup, or a magnetic pickup attached to the fingerboard end.

  • A fretted fingerboard can be scalloped by "scooping out" the wood between each of the frets to create a shallow "U" shape.
  • Based on artistic depictions, the Hittites used lutes with relatively small sound boxes and long fingerboards, which resemble the Pandura later used by the Greeks and Romans.
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