1. A narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin, cello or guitar etc.) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
   "The guitarist's fingers moved deftly across the fingerboard as he played the solo"
    
2. A bank of keys on a musical instrument
   "Her fingers glided across the fingerboard as she played";
   - piano keyboard, clavier
    
3. A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
   "The old fingerboard at the crossroads pointed the way to several nearby villages";
   - fingerpost

Derived forms: fingerboards

Type of: guidepost, keyboard, signpost, strip

Part of: accordion, banjo, bowed stringed instrument, forte-piano, guitar, lute, mandolin, mandoline [archaic], organ, piano, pianoforte, pipe organ, squeeze box, string

Encyclopedia: Fingerboard, Ontario