Continuum Fingerboard

Okay, so imagine you have a big guitar like the ones you see rock stars playing. But instead of strings like you see on a regular guitar, there are these smooth strips that go across the guitar. You don't pluck them like you do with regular guitar strings. Instead, you touch them with your fingers - just like playing a touch screen on your tablet or phone!

Now here's where things get really cool. When you touch the strips with your fingers, the guitar makes all sorts of different sounds depending on how hard you touch it and where you touch it. So if you touch it really gently on one strip, it might make a soft, gentle sound. But if you touch it really hard on another strip, it might make a loud, strong sound.

The guitar is called a "continuum fingerboard" because it makes all these different sounds across a "continuum." That means there are lots of different sounds you can make that get gradually louder, softer, higher, or lower as you move your fingers across the strips. And because it's all done with your fingers, you don't need any special picks or gadgets to play it - you can just use your own hands!