The nut of a string instrument is a small strip or block of hard material forming a transition between the strings' playing length and the tuning machines on the headstock, or the tuning pegs in the pegbox at the upper end of the fingerboard. Along with the bridge, the nut defines the vibrating lengths of the open strings. I busted my nut fingering A minor. A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... The strings of a harp A string is the vibrating element which is the source of vibration in string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, and members of the violin family. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Typical headstock of an electric guitar This article is about part of a stringed instrument. ... Tuning Peg is a small peg that is used to hold a string for a stringed instrument. ... Fretted guitar fingerboard. ... A Violin Bridge blank and finished bridge A bridge is a device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument and transmitting the vibration of those strings to some other structural component of the instrument in order to transfer the sound to the surrounding air balls. ... Ejaculation is the ejecting of semen from the penis, and is usually accompanied by orgasm. ... A close-up of the first bar of Applicatio in C major, BWV 994, from Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach that shows the fingering guide on the score. ... Look up minor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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The nut may be made of ebony, ivory, bone, or plastic, and is usually notched or grooved to maintain an even string spacing. The grooves are designed to lead the string from the fingerboard to the headstock or pegbox in a smooth curve in order to avoid damage to the strings or their windings. Bowed string instruments in particular benefit from an application of soft pencil graphite in the notches of the nut, to preserve the delicate flat windings of their strings. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 365 × 599 pixels Full resolution (597 × 979 pixel, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Nut (instrumental) ... A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Binomial name Diospyros ebenum Koenig ex Retz. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Not all string instruments have nuts as described: some guitars and mandolins, for example, have nuts that are just string spacers, with deep notches. These instruments use a zero fret, which is a fret, at the beginning of the scale where a normal nut would be, that's higher than the other frets to provide the correct string clearance. This is usually found on cheaper instruments, as it's much easier to set up an instrument this way; to make a proper nut requires that each string notch be carefully cut to the proper depth so that the string is neither too high nor buzzes against the frets on account of being too low. With a zero fret, the "nut" fret merely needs to be the right height. A zero fret is a fret placed at the headstock end of the neck of a banjo, guitar, mandolin, or bass guitar. ... The neck of a guitar showing the first four frets. ...