fretboard

component of many stringed instruments, attached to the front the neck of instrument, where the player presses the strings to change their length and sound
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fretboard

Summary

fretboard ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fretboard's image is recorded as Frets, guitar neck, C-major chord.jpg[2].
  • fretboard's GND ID is recorded as 7670560-2[3].
  • fretboard's subclass of is recorded as musical instrument part[4].
  • fretboard's Commons category is recorded as Fingerboards and fretboards (string instrument)[5].
  • fretboard's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0215pk[6].
  • fretboard's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300209254[7].
  • fretboard's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • fretboard's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/fingerboard[9].
  • fretboard's Quora topic ID is recorded as Fingerboard[10].
  • fretboard's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as gripebrett_-_musikk[11].
  • fretboard's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as Fingerboard[12].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for fretboard include Fretboard[13], an application software[14].

Why It Matters

fretboard ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (110 views/month).[1] fretboard has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] fretboard is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for fretboard include Fretboard[13], an application software[14].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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