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2. Nut (string instrument) - Wikipedia

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   A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll.The nut marks one end of the vibrating length of each open string, sets the spacing of the strings across the neck, and usually holds the strings at the proper height from the fingerboard.

3. Zero fret - Wikipedia

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   Zero fret on a Hopf Saturn 63 electric guitar. A zero fret is a fret placed at the headstock end of the neck of a banjo, guitar, mandolin, or bass guitar.It serves one of the functions of a nut: holding the strings the correct distance above the other frets on the instrument's fretboard.

4. Fret - Wikipedia

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   Instruments with straight frets like guitars require a special compensation on the saddle and nut. Every time a string is fretted it is also stretched, and as it stretches the string rises in pitch, making all fretted tones sound sharp. When the saddle is positioned properly, however, the fretted tones all sound sharp to the same degree as long ...

5. Guitar - Wikipedia

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   Some guitars (such as Steinbergers) do not have headstocks at all, in which case the tuning machines are located elsewhere, either on the body or the bridge. The nut is a small strip of bone, plastic, brass, corian, graphite, stainless steel, or other medium-hard material, at the joint where the headstock meets the fretboard. Its grooves guide ...

6. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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   Fender has also built some 3/4-size student guitars with a scale length of 22.5 inches (570 mm) or shorter. Gibson uses a scale length of 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (630 mm) on most of its electric guitars, including the ES-335, Les Paul, SG, Flying V, and Explorer. Gibson has used other scale lengths on various models through the years.

7. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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   Violin pegbox, retouched image Medieval bone tuning pin. One end is pierced for the string; the other is squared off to fit in a tuning lever socket. The middle section, which would pass through the wood, is tapered. A variety of methods are used to tune different stringed instruments.

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9. Russian guitar - Wikipedia

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   The tuner layout is usually in one of two forms: "4+3", with four tuners on the bass-string side of the head and three on the treble string side; or "3+1+3", with three tuners on each side of the headstock and one in the middle. The nut is a small strip traditionally of bone, but plastic, brass, and other materials are also sometimes seen.