fingerboard
1.One of several ridges set across the fingerboard of a stringed instrument, such as a guitar.
2.When you dress your fingerboard, do you take a little relief out of your bass side?
3.a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard.
4.A stringed instrument of India that has a long, fretted fingerboard with resonating gourds at each end.
5.A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass.
6.A small movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar or similar instrument so as to raise the pitch of all the strings uniformly.
7.Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the16th and17th centuries, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.
8.a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch.
9.A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.
10.the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow.

