| F-holes
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The sound holes of the violin and the cello. The
holes look like the letter âFâ in shape.
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| Fiddle
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The
colloquial name for the Violin.
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| Finger holes
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The
holes of a wind instrument, which are stopped either with fingers or by
keys.
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| Fingerboard
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The
stem of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass and which are
pressed by the fingers to produce musical notes. The fingerboard may be
plain, as in the Violin and Sarod,
or fretted, as in the Veena and Sitar.
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| Fingering
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The
technique of the use of fingers in any musical instrument.
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| Flute
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A wind instrument, considered a divine one, on
account of its associations with Lord Krishna. It is among the oldest
instruments known in India and consists of a hollow bamboo cylinder with
finger holes and a blowhole. The Indian flute is a simple cylindrical
tube of bamboo, one end closed, about fourteen or fifteen inches long,
unlike the European flute, which is made usually from wood or metal. The
European flute has keys whereas the Indian flute has no keys.
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| Folk music
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The music of the masses of the nation. The Indian
folk musical tradition is very close to its classical inheritance.
Besides being bewilderingly rich and varied in a country with a single
culture, spread across highly varied lifestyles and geographical and
ethnic traditions, the folk song and dance tradition form a bottomless
mine of rich and creative vitality. There is a folk song associated with
practically every event in life. Rites of passage, festivals and seasons
- each of these has a distinctive form of music associated with them.
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| Fundamental Note
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The basic vibration frequency of a plucked
string.
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