Fingerboard
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The fingerboard is an important component of most stringed instruments. It is a thin, long strip of material, usually wood, that is laminated to the front of the neck of an instrument. The strings run
Six strings bass guitar fingerboard
Scalloped fingerboard of Yngwie Malmsteen's Stratocaster
Fret
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A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full wi
The neck of a guitar showing the nut (in the background, coloured white) and first four frets
Frets tied on to the neck of a saz; note microtonal frets between semitones.
China. Pipa with frets, Middle Tang Dynasty era (618–907 A.D.), from the Yulin Caves, cave 15
France, Utrecht Psalter, c. 850. During the Carolingian Renaissance an Anglo Saxon artist drew an image of a cythara with frets.