Parts of the String Instrument

What is the wound, wooden top of the instrument called?

• Scroll

• Fingerboard

• Fine tuners

• End button

What are the four dark pieces of wood used to tune the strings located below the scroll? (Students should never turn them!)

• Scroll

• Fine Tuners

• Pegs

• End pin

What is the rectangle shaped space that the pegs go into located between the scroll and the nut?

• Peg box

• F-hole

• Soundpost

• Fingerboard

What is the black piece of raised wood at the end of the fingerboard that lifts the strings off of the fingerboard?

• Tail piece

• End button

• Soundpost

• Nut

What is the wood from the nut to the upperbout called?

• Neck

• Soundpost

• End pin

• C bout

What is the long piece of black wood called where you place your fingers to make different notes?

• Peg

• Tail piece

• Surfboard

• Fingerboard

What is the "shoulder" of the instrument called?

• A bout

• Upper bout

• Lower bout

• C bout

What are the "cut outs" on the sides of the instrument called?

• C bouts

• f-holes

• Upper bouts

• Peg box

What are the holes on the top of the instrument called?

• F-holes

• C bouts

• Peg box

• End button

What is the stick located inside the instrument called?

• Soundpost

• Nut

• Scroll

• Fingerboard