As the guitar, you should be able to point out the various parts of the guitar. The body and the neck should be pretty self-evident since they form the general shape of the guitar and are what everything else mounts to.
Headstock - On the end of the neck furthest from the body we have the headstock. Though headstocks are all shaped differently depending on the company that built the guitar, they all serve the same purpose, which is to hold the machine heads, sometimes called tuning pegs.
Machine heads - These are the usually flat-ish key-looking thingies that you turn to make the strings tighter or looser. You do that in order to tune each string to a specific note (more on that when we discuss tuning a guitar;)). Machine heads can be arranged on the head in a number of different ways, depending on the shape of the headstock, but will typically have 3 heads on one side and 3 on the other, since most guitars have 6 strings. Electric guitars are a bit different, most often having a diagonal head stock with all 6 heads on one side.
Frets - The frets are the little metal (usually) strips that sit on the fingerboard, or "fretboard," on the front side (the side the strings are on) of the neck. The frets break the neck up into smaller areas. As you press the string down onto the frets, you shorten the distance from the bridge (where the strings connect on the bottom of the guitar) to the point that stops the string length. The shorter the distance between the two points, the higher the pitch.
The bridge - This is the point on the body that is furthest from the headstock and it fastens the strings to the body. The bridge can be "fixed" or "floating" (though I would say 99% of guitars have a fixed one) and can be made of metal or wood. Acoustic guitars usually have fixed wooden bridges, while electric guitars have metal bridges. A floating bridge will be suspended off the guitar body by two metal bolts and may have springs attached to the back of the bridge. This allows the player to move the bridge up and down to raise or lower the pitch of all the strings for some really cool effects, like tremolo or "whammy-boing-boing" (sorry;) type sounds. You will see these almost exlusively on electric guitars.
Pickups - Are the magnetic devices that are mounted to the guitar body under the strings. Again, these are pretty much exclusive to electric guitars. Pickups transform the vibration of the strings into a changing magnetic field that basically converts vibrations into electric signals, which are then transformed into sound. A single pickup is called a "single coil" while a double-wide pickup is called a "humbucker".
Acoustic guitars sometimes have pickups as well, which are usually either mounted in the sound hole of the guitar and visible from the front, or they are thin metal strips mounted under the bridge where the strings connect. These pickups are called "piezo" pickups .
Griffbretter Gitarre
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