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
Portrait of a Man (Frans Hals, Frick) to show off his sleeve. Such abundant wrist collars are rarely seen in Hals portraits or indeed any Haarlem sitters. The personage depicted was possibly a cloth merchant or burgemeester. Hals mostly portrayed local people, barring a few rare examples of smaller portraits that were possibly painted for visitors to the town. In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote: "247. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. M. 148. Three-quarter-length. He is seen in full face, and looks at the spectator. His left arm, holding his gloves, hangs down almost straight ; the right hand is not