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 catalog raisonné, 1974 Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1974 The following is the list of 222 paintings indexed as autograph by Frans Hals, written by the art historian and Hals specialist Seymour Slive in 1974. The list is by catalog number and more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Frans Hals began painting on his own. Most of these are still considered autograph, but in the intervening half-century since this work began, several others have been added to the list, including a few from Slive's "L" list of 20 lost paintings and a few from his "D" list of