Guitar 2

Question 0

By pressing a string down onto a fret, you change

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the length of the string and therefore the tone it produces when it vibrates.

Question 1

The face of the neck, containing the frets, is called the

Answer 1

fingerboard. The frets are metal pieces cut into the fingerboard at specific intervals.

Question 2

Between the neck and the head is a piece called the

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nut, which is grooved to accept the strings.

Question 3

From a musical standpoint, the saddle and the nut act as

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the two ends of the string. The distance between these two points is called the scale length of the guitar.

Question 4

The strings pass over the nut and attach to tuning heads, which allow the player to

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increase or decrease the tension on the strings to tune them.