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What is the fret on a guitar?
A fret is a space between two fretbars on the neck of a stringed instrument. ... On instruments such as guitars, each fret represents one semitone in the standard western system, in which one octave is divided into twelve semitones. Fret is often used as a verb, meaning simply "to press down the string behind a fret".
How many frets are on a guitar?
The metallic parts on the neck are called frets. A player uses his or her left hand to hold the strings down in the spaces between the frets. There are a total of 20 frets for 20 semitones.
What is a fret used for?
FRET is often used to detect and track interactions between proteins. Additionally, FRET can be used to measure distances between domains in a single protein by tagging different regions of the protein with fluorophores and measuring emission to determine distance.
