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
Mr. Eddy influenced a multitude of rock guitarists, including George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen, whose plunging guitar lines on “Born to Run” pay homage to Mr. Eddy’s muscular fretwork.
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023
The 71-foot-high glass pyramid he built as the Louvre’s new entrance relied for its extraordinary visual lightness on a fretwork of stainless-steel rods and cables made by a manufacturer of yacht rigging.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2019
Padva, pausing to admire one in ivory satin delicately covered with black velvet fretwork, like wrought iron in long scrolling lines and curves.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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