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View Poll Results: Fingerboard or fretboard? | |
Fingerboard
|    | 111 | 24.29% | |
Fretboard
|    | 252 | 55.14% | |
Slappity Plank
|    | 38 | 8.32% | |
Throat Warbler Mangrove
|    | 56 | 12.25% |
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12-30-2012, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Toronto, ON | | | Do you call it a fingerboard or a fretboard?
I've always called it a fingerboard.  |
12-30-2012, 04:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Plano, TX | | | A fretboard has frets. Fingerboard does not.
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12-30-2012, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois | | | Either. We all know what these terms refer to, there's no distinction. |
12-30-2012, 05:08 PM
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Fingerboard- When you are trying to impress your first date.
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12-30-2012, 05:52 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: London, Ontario, Canada | | | So does a finger board have fingers on it?
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12-30-2012, 05:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: White Plains | | Quote:
Originally Posted by droppedurpocket  A fretboard has frets. Fingerboard does not. | +1
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12-30-2012, 05:58 PM
|  | Am I on time? | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | Fretboard = fretted basses
Fingerboard = fretless basses
That's what I,ve always thought.
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12-30-2012, 06:04 PM
| | | | We all know what it is. It doesn't matter really, but technically it's a fingerboard fretted or fretless. |
12-30-2012, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by M.R. Ogle Either. We all know what these terms refer to, there's no distinction. | Sure there is. My fretted basses have fretboards and my fretless basses have fingerboards.
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12-30-2012, 06:07 PM
| | | | Ill keep a fingerizing my slappity plank if yer don't mind |
12-30-2012, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | Neck. |
12-30-2012, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by James L We all know what it is. It doesn't matter really, but technically it's a fingerboard fretted or fretless. | +1 Fretboard speaks for itself. It's a more specific word, indicating that the fingerboard has frets on it.
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12-30-2012, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay2U +1 Fretboard speaks for itself. It's a more specific word, indicating that the fingerboard has frets on it. | Which is exactly why it shouldn't be used when discussing a fretless bass.
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12-30-2012, 06:17 PM
|  | Dangerous User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | I never talk about it, therefore, I don't call it anything.
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12-30-2012, 06:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The Motor City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James L We all know what it is. It doesn't matter really, but technically it's a fingerboard fretted or fretless. | Exactly. A fretboard is a fingerboard with frets on it.
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12-30-2012, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by droppedurpocket A fretboard has frets. Fingerboard does not. | +1. |
12-30-2012, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by powmetalbassist So does a finger board have fingers on it? | Mine does when I'm playing it 
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12-30-2012, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by droppedurpocket A fretboard has frets. Fingerboard does not. | What he said. |
12-30-2012, 06:26 PM
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12-30-2012, 06:48 PM
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