Crossword clues for fretboard
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n. (context music English) A fret or plate put over the neck of musical instruments, to create a different sound of notes.
Usage examples of "fretboard".
He was a middle-aged man—balding, beard turning white, the creased and heavy-browed face of a longshoreman turned itinerant musician—plainly dressed in baggy dungarees with shirt sleeves rolled up above his elbows, hunched over the keys and digital fretboard of a Yamaha electronic guitar.
He thought for a moment, then switched to the fretboard, fuzzed the pitch, and burned out the simpler first refrain of "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
He fitted the slide over the middle finger of his left hand, then pushed it against the fretboard as he adjusted the pitch wheel to its highest level.
As the thin man ran his fingers up and down the fretboard, it screamed and bellowed.
He could visualise the patterned patrol of his fingers on the fretboard of the mandolin, he could hear the disciplined notes ringing from the treble, singing the praise of Pelagia as they also portrayed her wrath and her resistance.
He produced three simple chords to accustom his fingers to the reduced space of a mandolin's fretboard, and then he cascaded down a scale at a rapid tremolo.
His head was bent over the long fretboard, eyes closed, as he produced ululating tremolos with a complicated bow.
One, nondescript in cotton jeans and t-shirt, had the usual stick hanging from a black straplong fretboard, synthesizer electronics tucked into a round bulge at the back end.