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05 Dec 11
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A guitar can be divided into three main parts:
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The hollow body
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The neck, which holds the frets
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The head, which contains the tuning pegs
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most important piece of the body is the soundboard. This is the wooden piece mounted on the front of the guitar's body, and its job is to make the guitar's sound loud enough for us to hear.
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In the soundboard is a large hole called the sound hole
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normally round and centered
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Attached to the soundboard is a piece called the bridge, which acts as the anchor for one end of the six strings. The bridge has a thin, hard piece embedded in it called the saddle, which is the part that the strings rest against.
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When the strings vibrate, the vibrations travel through the saddle to the bridge to the soundboard.
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body of the guitar forms a hollow soundbox that amplifies the vibrations of the soundboard.
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the vibrations of the soundboard are what produce the sound in an acoustic guitar
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The face of the neck, containing the frets, is called the fingerboard. The frets are metal pieces cut into the fingerboard at specific intervals. By pressing a string down onto a fret, you change the length of the string and therefore the tone it produces when it vibrates.
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Between the neck and the head is a piece called the nut, which is grooved to accept the strings.
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tuning heads, which allow the player to increase or decrease the tension on the strings to tune them.
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05 May 08
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