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2. Neck (music) - Wikipedia

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   The neck of a guitar includes the guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod. The wood used to make the fretboard will usually differ from the wood in the rest of the neck. The bending stress on the neck is considerable, particularly when heavier gauge strings are used, and the ability of the neck to resist bending is important ...

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. A separate string-guide (often a regular nut) is still ...

4. Truss rod - Wikipedia

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   Truss rods are frequently made out of steel, though graphite and other materials are sometimes used.. The truss rod can be adjusted to compensate for expansion or contraction in the neck wood due to changes in humidity or temperature, or to compensate for changes in the tension of the strings (the thicker the guitar string, the higher its tension when tuned to correct pitch) or using different ...

5. Neck-through-body construction - Wikipedia

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   Neck-through construction is significantly harder to mass-produce than bolt-on or set-in neck constructions. As such, guitars with this construction method tend to be more expensive than guitars made by other methods. This method of construction may be somewhat more common in basses than in guitars. Repairs to the neck are usually expensive and ...

6. Classical guitar accessories - Wikipedia

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   A guitar support is an ergonomic alternative to the more commonly used foot-stool. The guitar support lifts the guitar from the player's knee while he or she keeps both feet firmly on the ground. This it is argued improves overall posture by reducing the twisting of the body normally associated with the use of a foot-rest.

7. Set-in neck - Wikipedia

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   With hollow body set-in neck electric guitars of the 1940s being rather expensive to buy and repair, newcomer Fender in 1950 introduced electric guitars that were easier to manufacture, combining a simple solid body with a bolt-on neck. Fender also introduced the electric bass guitar by adding a longer neck bolted to a solid guitar body.

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9. Set-through neck - Wikipedia

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   Set-through neck (or Set-thru neck) is a method of joining the neck and the body of guitar (or similar stringed instrument), effectively combining bolt-on, set-in and neck-through methods. It involves: