Talk:Fingering

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Nice link for this subject.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/fluteacoustics.html

[edit] Redirect to disambiguation?

I've never heard of this musical use of the term "fingering". Admittedly, I've never studied music, but nevertheless I think the sexual practice is the one more widely recognised under the term. I suggest moving this article to Fingering (musical) or similar, and having Fingering used as the disambiguation page, linking to all the uses. -Erolos 14:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Fortunately, Wikipedia is based upon sources, rather than "I've heard of it.". Looking at sources one finds that fingering is the proper formal name for a musical concept that one will find discussed in books about playing musical instruments, such as Fingering Practice for Beginning Bands (ISBN 082512574X), The Art of the Violin (ISBN 0810107538), and The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers (ISBN 0195105028). The sexual practice is, in contrast, at best a colloquialism for what is actually known in the literature as "digital penetration of the vagina" or simply "digital penetration" (with sufficient context). Having the colloquialism be given equal weight to the formal term, especially when many current dictionaries don't even include the sexual practice as a meaning of "fingering" in the first place, wouldn't be right. Uncle G 01:34, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
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