fretboard
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Originating in southern Mexico, this upright bass is all about the slap — a raw, percussive sound created when the string hits the fretboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
“I’m making it so much harder,” she said, removing two rings and stretching her powerful fingers across the fretboard.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
The fretboard fireworks are still there, just not at the expense of the songwriting.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2021
It was only a year later, after she became obsessed with The Smiths, David Bowie and The Ramones that she resolved to conquer the fretboard once and for all.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2021
If his runs on the mandolin fretboard ended in disaster, he’d simply play the same thing again, suggesting he’d meant to do it all along.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2019
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