fretwork

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US guitarist Carol Kaye, whose fretwork can be heard on classic tracks like You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and the theme to Mission: Impossible, receives the same honour.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025

Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023

Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

So we made a shirt with an extra sleeve in it, and a musician crouched behind doing the fretwork as Redden strummed.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2017

Here a fretwork wooden chef on his back, holding a board on which remains chalked today’s soup.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr