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1. Which animal body part is not the name of a guitar part?
2. What is the name of the small piece at the top of the fingerboard which supports the strings?
3. Some guitars may have a fret right at the top of the fingerboard. What do we call this fret?
4. My guitar has an arm which works a mechanism to raise and lower the strings. What is the FORMAL name for this mechanism?
5. When choosing timber for the body of a solid bodied electric guitar a luthier needs to consider the wood's impact on which characteristics?
6. When an electric guitar is strung and tuned a significant force acts along the length of the neck. Which component is fitted to counteract this force and stop the neck bending too far and even breaking?
7. What do we call the distance between the strings and the frets (or fingerboard)?
8. Which fret is conventionally placed at half the scale length, i.e. one octave up from an open string?
9. Pickups generally come in two types - single coil and humbucker. Why was the humbucker devised?
10. Which of the woods listed is considered as suitable for a fingerboard?
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