Looking back many hundreds of years, early lutes were fretless, but they began getting frets from the late 16th century. These frets subdivide a fretboard so a string can be pressed anywhere between ...
Have you ever given much thought to your frets? Frets are made in a range sizes, all of which can have a big impact on not only how your guitar plays but also how it sounds. From wide and low to ...
Those thin metal strips seated across the fingerboard do a lot more than show where to place fingers. Frets govern pitch accuracy, tonal quality, and overall playability on any guitar. Whether a ...
Uneven frets are a common issue with our guitars, but MusicNomad has come up with different ways to empower players to deal with it themselves When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
We take a look at two different products that can help you get your frets gleaming and your guitar back to its best for smoother bends and clearer vibrato When you purchase through links on our site, ...
Only 80s kids will remember actual hair metal with the meedley-mees way up high on the fret board, and in the 80s, fret boards got longer. Twenty one or twenty two frets on a guitar weren’t good ...
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke 235pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 Antickes and frets, Susanna Clarke informs us in a footnote (she's a great one for footnotes), are respectively ...