Talk:Neck (music)

Does the neck include fingerboard or acts as a basement for it?
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
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)
 * 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)