Examples of fret

• However, earlier instruments with the same name might well have had movable frets that provided for the production of microtones.

• He fretted over their illnesses, and thought seriously about and invested in their future.

• Physicians fretted over how to secure those limits, given the possibility of fraudulent claims and deceptive practices in experiments, demonstrations, and the like.

• She fretted over her inability to withstand open scrutiny from the sophisticates she imagined would people her audience.

• The upper band has step frets, followed by one with tassels, then another with variable designs.

• Calculating the distances between the frets was a theoretical task.

• The use of frets improves the transparency of the instrument by making it more apparent which finger positions will produce which notes.

• However, guitarists have found ways to regain this expressivity that would not be possible without the frets.

• However, it also incorporates components of a convergent mapping through the inclusion of frets.

• Both of them, therefore, fretted about prices.

• To place notes between the extremes and the mean, a monochord was fabricated and a canon was fixed, below the string, marked with frets in the manner of a guitar.

• The videotapes of each infant's behaviors were coded reliably for the frequency of motor activity (movement of the limbs and arching of the back), fretting, and crying.

• As an aside, one variation for the guitar, suggested by this comparison to the violin, would be to remove the frets after the player has learned the correct note positions.

• Policy-makers should stop fretting about unemployment and the provision of welfare state safety nets and should concentrate on doing whatever was necessary to achieve inflation free economic growth.

• The long, thin neck suggests the possibility of tracking hand motions while fingering the fret board.