fingering

“What’s gone downhill is security,” Wilcox said, fingering Mali and Burkina Faso.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023

He looked away, fingering a frayed edge of the carpet.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022

He took it up, holding it close to the light of the window, fingering and examining it to see those improvements Rab said he had made on it.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He largely taught himself to play the oboe and English horn, using a book that showed the fingerings.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2023

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

“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

Players of both bowed and plucked strings generally find fingerings and tuning to be easier in sharp keys, while woodwind and brass players often find flat keys more comfortable and in tune.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones