String instrument construction

thumbnail|right|Three plectra for use with guitar A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is held as a separate tool in the player's hand. Players of lap steel guitar and bluegrass style banjo music often wear a fingerpick, a style of plectrum that clips onto or wraps around the end of the fingers and thumb. In harpsichords, the plectra are attached to the jack mechanism.

thumb|The neck of a guitar showing the Nut (instrumental)|nut (in the background, coloured white) and first four frets

device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument

right|thumb|100px|Fretted classical guitar fingerboard right|thumb|100px|Fretless violin fingerboard The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments. It is a thin, long strip of material, usually wood, that is laminated to the front of the neck of an instrument. The strings run over the fingerboard, between the nut and bridge. To play the instrument, a musician presses strings down to the fingerboard to change the vibrating length, changing the pitch. This is called stopping the strings. Depending on the instrument and t

musical instrument part; open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air

musical instrument part

part inside a stringed instrument

electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body

maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound

part of a stringed instrument

musical instrument part

A vibration in a string is a wave

musical instrument part

musical instrument part

thumb|right|200px|This violin tailpiece has one fine tuner on the E string. thumb|Bass guitar tailpiece

thumb|right|Classical guitar headstock

apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments

Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities that enhance acoustic properties of the instruments, but other properties of the wood such as aesthetics and availability have always been considered in the selection of wood for musical instruments. According to ''Mottola's Cyclopedic Dictionary of Lutherie Terms'', tonewood is:Wood that is used to make stringed musical instruments. The term is often used to indicate wood species that are suitable for stringed musical instruments and, by exclus

decoratively carved beginning of the neck of a stringed musical instrument

trademark

type of bow for stringed instruments

accessory used for violins and violas

thumb|300px|Gluing in purfling on the cello's back plate. Purfling is a narrow decorative edge inlaid into the top plate and often the back plate of a stringed instrument. It was originally made of laminated strips of wood, and later nacre and other hard inlay materials. Plastic is commonly used in modern mass-produced instruments. Purfling may affect the instrument's acoustics.

kind of string instrument whose body is not hollow

brace running from the neck to the bridge in stringed instruments

persian, Arab or Hindu for plectrum