Neck (music) Neck (music) The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches. Guitars, banjos, ukuleles, lutes, the violin family, and the mandolin family are examples of instruments which have necks. Necks are also an integral part of certain woodwind instruments, like for instance the saxophone. The word for neck also sometimes appears in other languages in musical instructions. The terms include "manche" (French), "manico" (Italian), and "Hals" (German). The neck of a guitar includes the guitar's
Frans Hals Antwerp to Toronto, and from London to New York. Many of his paintings were then sold to American collectors. A primary collection of his work is displayed in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. The Hals crater on Mercury is named in his honor. Hals was pictured on the Netherlands' 10-guilder banknote of 1968. Parts of this article are excerpts of "The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, July 2005" by Antoon Erftemeijer, Frans Hals Museum curator. Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (; ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked