fingering
noun
the act of a person who fingers.
fingerings
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pluralof fingering.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In junior high, he was given a battered cornet to play and, overnight, learned the fingerings of the instrument and the next day played “Pomp and Circumstance” for the band teacher.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
Charlie’s first instrument was a banjo, but, baffled by the fingerings required to play it, he removed the neck and converted its body into a snare drum.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“My scores of Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, and Messiaen are still covered in the meticulous fingerings and often pointed criticisms that she would notate, bar after bar,” he wrote shortly after Loriod’s death, in 2010.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Students learn and practice on a chanter, an oboe-like instrument with the same fingerings as the bagpipe’s melody pipe.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
“And we were talking. She asked me if I would show her some harp fingerings, but it’s been a long time since I played harp.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
