Lexic.us

Definition of Finger hole

1. Noun. One of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Finger Hole

Literary usage of Finger hole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"For convenience in tuining it has finger holes eleven in number around its outer edge. Through each finger hole, except the eleventh one, a number is seen. ..."

2. Law Reports of Patent Cases: 1602-1842 by Great Britain Courts (1843)
"For the Ii flute, from plug hole to finger hole five inches and seven-eighths ... For the E flute, from plug to finger hole, eight inches and a half; ..."

3. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"Through each finger hole a number is seen; these numbers are consecutive from " 1" to " 9 " and through the tenth finger hole, "0" appears. ..."

4. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1887)
"For the octave let the upper joint be bored about the thickness of a piece of paper wider than the German flute of that size, and from the top finger-hole ..."

5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"The lip-hole is 12.6 inches, the first finger-hole 75 and last 2.7, inches from the ... Its chief peculiarity is that between the upper finger-hole and the ..."

6. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"This instrument is admirable in its way, but it could have been improved ; first by placing the distal finger-hole a little farther from the end, ..."

7. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the by Charles Russell Day, David James Blaikley (1891)
"The fourth finger-hole is placed upon the top, then a thumb-hole at the back, and lastly the sixth finger-hole near the lower end of the flageolet. ..."

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