Setar
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A setar is a stringed instrument, a type of lute used in Persian traditional music, played solo or accompanying voice. It is a member of the tanbur family of long-necked lutes with a range of more tha
Parts of an Iranian Setar
Setar bowl or body, string holder, strings, bridge and sound holes
Woman with a Setar, Safavid Iran, Isfahan (ca. 1600–1610)
Woman with a Setar, Qajar Iran, Tehran
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.