The fingerboard, also known as a fretboard, is a part of most stringed instruments. It is a thin, long strip of wood that is laminated to the front of the neck of an instrument and above which the strings run. In the playing of such an instrument, a musician presses the strings down to it in order to change their vibrating lengths, causing changes in pitch. A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... This article describes the wood that comprises trees and boards. ... Historically, glue only refers to protein colloids prepared from animal tissues, such as hide glue, bone glue, or fish glue. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... In music, pitch is the perception of the frequency of a note. ...

A fingerboard may be fretted, having raised strips of hard material perpendicular to the strings against which the strings are pressed when pressed down; frets generally allow for more precise changes in pitch and for less dampening of the vibrations. Frets may be fixed, as on a guitar or mandolin, or movable, as on a lute. Fingerboards may also be unfretted, as they usually are on bow-played instruments, where dampening is generally not a problem due to the prolonged stimulation of the strings. Fingerboards may also be, though uncommon, a hybrid of these two. Such a construction is seen on the sitar, where arched frets attach at the edges of the fingerboard; unfretted strings run below the frets, while fretted ones run above. The frets are sufficiently high that pressing strings against the fingerboard is unnecessary for the frets to stop their vibrations so that the lower strings' vibrations are uninterrupted. The neck of a steel-string acoustic guitar showing the first four frets. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Carved and round backed mandolins (front) A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument. ... The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. ... In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ... Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical music instrument. ...

A fingerboard is also a article of climbing training equipment. A wide range of equipment is used during climbing. ...