unfretted in a sentence

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1. Due to the special nature of the instrument, the neck behaves as though it was unfretted despite the ordinary placement of numerous frets ( anywhere from 24 to 34 or more to the octave ).
2. A two-necked version of the Russian guitar was also once popular; these guitars usually had 11 or 12 strings one neck with seven fretted strings, and another with four or five unfretted strings.
3. His experimentation with computers continued, in 2003, with the creation of an instrument he calls the BassComputer, an electric bass with 5 fretted strings and 4 unfretted strings, as in the harp guitar.
4. In January 2006 Fender introduced the Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass, a distinctive instrument, with an alder body and modern C-shaped maple neck with an unfinished and unfretted ebony fingerboard with side dot position markers.
5. Unlike the short-necked unfretted oud, the buzuq has a longer neck, smaller body and frets tied to the neck, which can be moved to produce the " maqamat " ( musical modes ).
6. There is also a D�cacorde ( attributed to Lac�te ), that was in the workshop of Fran�oise Sinier de Ridder, which has 7 strings on the neck ( fretted ) and 3 sub-basses ( unfretted strings ).
7. In traditional play, fretting is achieved with a " noter "  typically a short length of dowel or bamboo ( see photo at left )  on the melody course, while the middle and bass strings ring as unfretted drones.
8. Barre chords are sometimes called " moveable " chords, Commonly used in both popular and classical music, Barre chords are frequently used in combination with " open " chords, where the guitar's open ( unfretted ) strings construct the chord.
9. Unfretted instruments tend to have a sweeter, less incisive tone due to the greater load on the bridge resulting from the greater number of strings, though the large, late ( early 19th century ) Swedish clavichords tend to be the loudest of any of the historic clavichords.
10. The unfretted " starosvitska " bandura ( a variant of gusli, developed ca . 1700 appropriated the bandura name, but was commonly referred to as a kobza, because of the name's historical cachet while the Romanian kobza or cobza is a different type of plucked lute.