Frets

Frets main Frets are the metal strips (usually nickel alloy or stainless steel) embedded along the fingerboard and placed at points that divide the length of string mathematically.

Instruments with more frets are used by bassists who play bass solos, as more frets gives them additional upper range notes.

It has 21 tied nylon (adjustable) frets in keeping with the adjustable (tied gut) frets on traditional viols and has an effective playing range of more than six octaves.

Several sizes of fret wire are available, with traditional players often preferring thin frets, and metal shredders liking thick frets.

The original Fender basses had 20 frets, and most bass guitars have between 20 and 24 frets or fret positions.

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Combined with the jumbo frets and smooth C-neck, it's easily playable, too.

Her voice fades, just like the sound of her flip-flops slapping the floor when she retreats to the kitchen moments later, where she frets with pots and pans.

After an unbeaten run of 31 games and then a stretch of 11 defeats in 28, it is time to return to the former and make Old Trafford a place that the opposition frets about once again.

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It’s always full of fresh crumbs and other delectables, and he’ll get the occasional fledgling, who will stand in the tray and look like a doofus, while a nearby parent frets.

Jean is busy preparing for Christmas as Stacey frets over Martin.

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Watching young Veena Venkataramani on the frets gives one the hope that the appeal for the instrument has risen in the current scenario.

Give a listen to “Old Photographs,” the closing track on Tommy Emmanuel’s ‘It’s Never Too Late’, and you’ll hear the distinctive squeak of finger noise as he runs his hands across the frets of his Maton Signature TE guitar.

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No one watching Ronnie McCoury tear into his mandolin solos Wednesday — fingers flying across the frets while notes poured into the air at a rate any thrash-metalhead would envy — could be anything less than dumbstruck.

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Among these are "jumbo" frets, which have much thicker gauge, allowing for use of a slight vibrato technique from pushing the string down harder and softer.

Between these sizes and standard lies the A-scale banjo, which is two frets shorter and usually tuned one full step above standard tunings.