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According to "The Free Online Dictionary by Farlex" a guitar is a
musical instrument having a large, flat-backed sound box, a long fretted
neck and usually six strings played by stumming or plucking. This is the
dictionary definition of guitar. What do the words in the definition
mean?
First, let us look at the words flat-backed. if something is flat it has no
bumps, curves, crevices or indentations, it is smooth. therefore, the
phrase means the back of the sounds box is smooth surface. A sound box
is a hollow chamber, a box with walls, which in this case is the body of
the instrument. The reason for the hollow chamber is to allow the
resonance of a tone to escape as a sound.
We understand what the word long means, but what is a fret and what does
fretted means? A fret is a raised piece of metal located on the neck of
a musical instrument. Frets are bridges, which hold up the strings along
the neck of the musical instrument. The purpose of the frets is to
divide the neck of the instrument into equal segments, which forms a
fingerboard. Frets are not decorations; each metal fret represent a
semitone and twelve semitones equals one octave. To fret means to press
down on a string or string behind a fret and strum the strings with your
fingers, we cause a tone to resonant through the sound box.
There is no need to fret is your guitar does not have frets because some
guitars do not have frets and some guitars are semi-fretted. Only
experienced guitar players who understand the relationship between frets,
strings, fingerboard and degrees of requiered pressure can play a guitar
without frets, or guitar which is semi-fretted. Some guitars have
slanted frets to create certain types of tones. Frets are really the key
for beginners to learn how to play a guitar properly.
