What is Fret?
[[File:YAMAHA MOTION LB long-scale bass, LED position marks.jpg|thumb|220px|The neck of a bass guitar. The frets are the pieces running left to right under the strings that run top to bottom.]] A '''fret''' is a thin strip of varying materials (most commonly metal, but occasionally gut or nylon) found on [[string instrument]]s. [[Guitar]]s, [[mandolin]]s, and [[banjo]]s have frets. Frets are mounted on the long necks of the instrument. The frets help the musician playing the instrument to know where to place their fingers on the instrument. On historical instruments and some non-European instruments, pieces of string tied around the neck are frets. Frets divide the neck into sections related to a musical framework. On instruments such as guitars, each fret marks one semitone in the standard western system where one octave is divided into twelve semitones. ==Other websites== {{commons cat-inline|Frets}} {{music-stub}} [[Category:String instrument construction]]