| It is of 18th-century origin, has six or seven melody strings and several sympathetic strings, and is unfretted. |
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| Smaller than the sitar, the sarod has an unfretted fingerboard made of metal. |
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| Surviving pictures of the ʿūd show no frets, but it is possible that both fretted and unfretted types were used. |
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| The large unfretted clavichords built from the first half of the 18thcentury are perfectly appropriate for accompanying, thanks to their great flexibility. |
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| Its wooden substructure is solid, its timber unwormed, its royal blue cloth lining unfretted by the worm. |
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| Ali Khan, who is in his late 70's, has a touch that brings out the banjolike quality of the sarod, an unfretted 25-string lutelike instrument with some strings for melodies, some strings for droning. |
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| Class 3 children are introduced to unfretted instruments because they have to listen and find the note rather than simply learn it from a book or on the internet. |
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