Do you call it a fingerboard or a fretboard?

[AltGrendel]

Originally Posted by Solarmist

Fretboard = fretted basses
Fingerboard = fretless basses

That's what I,ve always thought.

+1

[odin70]

Im Norwegian so i call it ..gripebrett...most of the time. Fretlessboard when i speak English

[S6I6X]

I called it a fretboard until I started playing fretless more. It just feels stupid calling it a fretboard on a FL so I call them all fingerboard now.

[GBassNorth]

I've always called it a Fretboard but that's because I almost always play a fretted bass.
Technically I believe it's called a Fingerboard (see Warmoth link)...
http://www.warmoth.com/pages/CustomB....aspx?style=86
also see Fender link...
http://www.fender.com/products/americandeluxe

Just to confirm, I also looked up Fender guitar necks since you don't see those in non-fretted form very often, and even on the guitars they call it a Fingerboard....
http://www.fender.com/products/americandeluxe

Guess I'll just have to alter my state of mind.

[1SHOT1HIT]

I've always called it a fretboard simply because I like the way it sounds over fingerboard.

But lets be realistic here, it's a fingerboard.

This board has had a name for a very long time, long before frets were ever in the picture.
It's a fingerboard with or w/o frets. (IMO)

However, seeing as how there are no "rules" to what you can or cannot call things.
Call it whatever you'd like to call it. Personally, I'm sticking with fretboard, why? Because I can.

[MD]

Since I don't play fretted instruments, fretboard is just plain incorrect.

Slappity plank has a certain cartoonish ring to it, but I don't slap, so that's kinda out.

I try to avoid your everyday throat warbler.

Guess it's fingerboard.

[Durockrolly]

All of my guitars and basses have frets so I call mine fretboards.

[darkstorm]

fretboard. Never used the term fingerboard myself.

[thehamsterman]

Fretboard on guitar, fingerboard on upright.

[Nashrakh]

Originally Posted by odin70

Im Norwegian so i call it ..gripebrett...most of the time. Fretlessboard when i speak English

Similar deal in German, we just call it "Griffbrett" and it's as neutral a term as can be, applies to fretless and fretted, guitar, upright, violin, etc pp. We don't use something like fretboard, and thinking about it if someone DID it would sound really really weird...