Intonation

[Bob the bassist]

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[david12]

Many factors, including the thickness and stiffness of the string (which is not a physically ideal, one dimensional entity) and especially the fact that fretting a note slightly raises the string tension, we must adjust the length of the string, and thus, the positions of the frets, to compensate.