tailpiece
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- Part of
- string instrument
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- Gibson Banjo Ukulele UB-1 - Tailpiece (1925 or early-1926) (2008-06-08 04.56.35 by switthoft).jpg
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- Function and construction
- Setting up tailpieces
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- References
thumb|right|200px|This violin tailpiece has one fine tuner on the E string. thumb|Bass guitar tailpiece
A tailpiece is a component on many stringed musical instruments that anchors one end of the strings, usually opposite the end with the tuning mechanism as scroll, headstock, peghead, etc...
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tailpiece” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.