Parts of A Guitar
- Headstock (peghead, head)
- Nut (instrumental)
- Machine heads (or Tuning keys)
- Frets
- Fretboard (fingerboard)
- Truss rod
- Inlay (guitar)
- Neck (music)
- Neck joint: see Set-in neck, Bolt-on neck and Neck-thru
- Pickup (music technology) (Electric – Single coil (including P-90), Humbucker) (Acoustic – Piezoelectric)
- Bridge (instrument)
- Pickguard
- Body: The solid body of an electric and the sounding box of an acoustic
- Sounding board (Acoustic)
- Strings (music)
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