fingering.
Numerical notation recommending which fingers should be used in performance. It is found chiefly in music for keyboard and stringed instruments, whose technique allows some choice—usually determined by artistic licence and compositional context—in such matters; for many other instruments, fingering is related to the means of producing the note required and therefore rarely notated. ... ...
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