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

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

Along the way War has mastered lyric writing, a tool now as keen as her fretwork.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

Matt heard him slither through the fretwork of bones.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer