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
Jan Hals for her money, in a house filled with paintings "in the Dutch manner". Houbraken heard this story from J. Wieland, an elderly art collector who had known the family. According to the RKD he was the son of Frans Hals and his second wife, Lysbeth Reyniersdr. He was the half-brother of Harmen and Frans II, and the full brother of Reynier and Nicolaes. He was the brother-in-law of Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten. He had the bentname "De Gulden Esel" (the golden easel), but he is not recorded in Italy, so it is difficult to understand how he came to join