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fingering

In music, notation directing the player to use specific fingers on specific notes. In keyboard music ‘1’ represents the thumb, ‘2’ the index finger, and so on. In orchestral string music ‘1’ represents the index finger, ‘2’ the middle finger, and so on.



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"I confess," replied the Missionary, fingering a number of ten-cent pieces which a Sunday-school in his own country had forwarded to him, "that I am a product of you, but I protest that you cannot quote Scripture with accuracy and point.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
I spent long hours in the Louvre, the most friendly of all galleries and the most convenient for meditation; or idled on the quays, fingering second-hand books that I never meant to buy.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Major Thomson, who had been fingering the Sketch, laid it down the moment the door was closed.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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