Talk:Neck (music)
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Does the neck include fingerboard or acts as a basement for it?
[edit]The first section sais it to be the base of the fingerboard. In the second section (about guitar neck) it's said to include the fretboard. Hmm? Kvap (talk) 10:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
- Does "a fruit basket" mean a collection of fruit that merely happens to be in a basket, or only a basket that could potentially be used to hold fruit? or must it be both fruit and basket, simultaneously?
- Geez...
- If someone were to "sand the finish off the neck," only an idiot would assume that required also sanding the fretted side. Yet the entire assembly is obviously "the neck."
- FWIW, I knew a luthier who would refer to the non-fretboard part as the billet.
- Hope that helps.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 08:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
guitar necks
[edit]Firstly, this article is a poor agglomeration, not very unified. I mean, the neck of a saxophone has more to do with plumbing (maybe ductwork) than with a violin or guitar -- they merely happen to all be musical instruments. They aren't even in any fashion held (much less played) in similar manners.
It's little more (IMO) than a dictionary entry with some illustrative padding, and might as well be a pointer page to actual articles.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 08:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
- I agree. The title should probably be "Neck (stringed instrument)", or "Neck (guitar)", rather than "Neck (music)".
- Stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, harps, and even some keyboard instruments have "necks", and the term means something different for each.
- Also, the section on "marker dots" could be better written. A list of characteristics of electric guitars is given, none of which really have anything to do with the presence or absense of "marker dots" or other position markers. I have several electric guitars with no marker dots, whatsoever. On the other hand, side position marker dots are quite common on even high-end classical guitars these days. It's really a matter of design aesthetic and personal preference.
- 74.95.43.253 (talk) 23:39, 18 June 2021 (UTC)