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=== Fingerboard marking ===

Tapes are the most awesome (because they're color codable), but chalk works too. Players respond to them well because most of them learned to play with tapes in elementary school. Provide tape to the players, debunking any myths that it will affect the sound or damage the instrument. If it does leave some sticky residue, tell them to wipe it off and suck it up. If you don't trust your string players' ears, or the part is technically challenging, color coded tapes are plainly the easiest way to get it in tune fast.

== Bowed fretted strings ==

The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol viol family] (viola da gamba, some types of violone, baryton, etc.) of the Renaissance and Baroque eras consisted of various sizes of bowed fretted instruments. The frets were tied on lengths of gut, which could be moved to adjust for temperament, with the provision of split frets being possible to enable playing distinct sharps and flats. The arpeggione is a Nineteenth Century instrument made according to a similar idea, and experimental fretted bowed instruments have been made in modern times ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuitarViol GuitarViol], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9c2GTn0h4&list=WL&index=34&t=0s fretted violin], etc.), although most often not with movable frets.

== Music ==

Most (if not all) of [[Ben Johnston]]'s string quartets are written for bowed strings in [[just intonation]].

=== 19th Century ===

; {{W|Franz Schubert}}

* ''Sonata for arpeggione and fortepiano in a minor D821'' (1824) ― performed by Nicolas Deletaille, arpeggione (with movable fretlets) and Alain Roudier, fortepiano (2012)

** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5Q 1. Allegro moderato]

** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFQ85SU_qs 2. Adagio & 3. Allegretto]

Many more examples could be added here.

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 === Fingerboard marking ===
 Tapes are the most awesome (because they're color codable), but chalk works too. Players respond to them well because most of them learned to play with tapes in elementary school. Provide tape to the players, debunking any myths that it will affect the sound or damage the instrument. If it does leave some sticky residue, tell them to wipe it off and suck it up. If you don't trust your string players' ears, or the part is technically challenging, color coded tapes are plainly the easiest way to get it in tune fast.
+== Bowed fretted strings ==
+The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol viol family] (viola da gamba, some types of violone, baryton, etc.) of the Renaissance and Baroque eras consisted of various sizes of bowed fretted instruments.  The frets were tied on lengths of gut, which could be moved to adjust for temperament, with the provision of split frets being possible to enable playing distinct sharps and flats.  The arpeggione is a Nineteenth Century instrument made according to a similar idea, and experimental fretted bowed instruments have been made in modern times ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuitarViol GuitarViol], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9c2GTn0h4&list=WL&index=34&t=0s fretted violin], etc.), although most often not with movable frets.
 == Music ==
 Most (if not all) of [[Ben Johnston]]'s string quartets are written for bowed strings in [[just intonation]].
+=== 19th Century ===
+; {{W|Franz Schubert}}
+* ''Sonata for arpeggione and fortepiano in a minor D821'' (1824) ― performed by Nicolas Deletaille, arpeggione (with movable fretlets) and Alain Roudier, fortepiano (2012)
+** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9UgdfwM5Q 1. Allegro moderato]
+** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFQ85SU_qs 2. Adagio & 3. Allegretto]
 Many more examples could be added here.