sentences:  The strings rest atop the zero fret, which is at the same height as the others, some people prefer and feel more comfortable with the zero fret slightly taller than the rest of the frets..The zero fret functions as all the other frets do.It is claimed that with a zero fret, the sound of an open string more closely approximates the sound of a fretted string as compared to the open string sound on a guitar with no zero fret.