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Fingering

noun

The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument.

Touching something with the fingers.

Finger

verb

(past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)

Feel or handle with the fingers. Synonym: thumb.

Examine by touch. Synonym: feel. "The customer fingered the sweater"

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Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments.

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"Fingering" Quotes from Famous Books

... fingering the golden serpent thoughtfully. "But that could not be unless I put out the lamp. Sometimes I get tired of this world,—it has changed since I ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... of hoofs as Haig's horse took the short bridge over the Brightwater. The crowd backed still farther away from Huntington, who was again fingering his roll of bills. ...

— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham

... great bulk grinning at me from the doorway. I saw my father half smiling, and fingering the lace at his throat. I saw Mademoiselle watching me, partly frightened, but partly curious, as though she had witnessed similar occurrences. Then my pent up anger got the better of me. Mr. Lawton's ...

— The Unspeakable Gentleman • John P. Marquand

... and pleasant person. Mr. Moscheles gives lessons at two guineas by the hour, and he has actually found scholars in this poor country. One of them at least (Mrs. John Murray) may derive advantage from his instructions; for I observe his mode of fingering is very peculiar, as he seems to me to employ the fingers of the same hand in playing the melody and managing the bass at the same time, which ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... picture—the shabby piano at home, kicked below by many childish feet, but mellow and sweet, like an old violin, and herself sitting practising, over and over, that part of Paderewski's Minuet where, as every one knows, the fingering is rather difficult, and outside the open window, leaning on his broom, worthless Johnny Fraser, staring in with friendly eyes and an extremely dirty face. To Twenty-two's unbounded amazement she flung down the cushion and made for the little ...

— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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