Talk:Tailpiece

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I think the page flows a bit better with fewer headers; everything on a tailpiece is pretty closely related to everything else. Fine tuners may be an attachment, or they may integrated, not only on trade-fiddle level TP's (e.g. Wittner, Thomastik and their clones) but some more pricey ones (e.g. Pusch and Bois d'Harmonie.) For that matter, the tailgut may also be considered an attachment (as in "sold separately.") Where to put it all? All together, sez I.

Material and construction very much plays into mass distribution, hence tone... it's all of a piece. OK, I'll be quiet for a while now :-) Just plain Bill 22:34, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK what we have now looks OK to me!--Light current 23:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They're a hybrid. That, as Prof. Peter Schickele puts it, "is the polite word." They are violin family instruments with some varying amount of viol-like features such as tuning in fourths, sloping shoulders, flat back, gamba corners, underhand bow hold. Of these, only the tuning in fourths is near-universal. Gambaguru (talk) 23:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Technically speaking, double basses are derived from the viol family, which is slightly different from the branch that the violin, viola, and cello come from. J Lorraine 09:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

not much mention of how the tailpiece on a banjo works. i'm not going to try and put it into words, but i think it could be helpful. Marge4 01:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice article with good illustrations, but the scope is extremely limited and only includes acoustic instruments in the violin family. I propose expanding to include other instrument families worldwide, including acoustic and electric, or rename to 'Tailpiece (violin)'. Chuckiesdad/Talk/Contribs 04:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold and include what you think is appropriate. If the article gets too bulky (unlikely) or disjointed, the violin stuff can be split out separately into something like 'Tailpiece (violin)' or such, but that bridge (pun intended) doesn't need crossing just yet. __Just plain Bill (talk) 11:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Does anyone know what the purpose is of a tailpiece. I don't mean to connect the strings to. There is a specific reason for using a tailpiece and I don't see it in this article.Longinus876 (talk) 03:31, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The nuts for the Sacconi-type tailgut used to be brass, but word is that they are nowadays plated aluminum. This has the practical effect that you can't squeeze them with a pliers to lock them in place once the desired length has been reached. This could be done with the brass ones, but the aluminum ones shatter. I don't have a source for this, so I hesitate to change the main article. Gambaguru (talk) 23:35, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The "see also" reference at the end of the page, which refers to a tailpiece in the typographic or book context seems to warrant its own page. Would anyone object if I move it to a new entry? Unionpearl (talk) 21:42, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]