• From: Fort Worth
  • Registered: 2007-11-27
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Topic: Why call it a "nut"?

Just a useless, silly question...  I can understand why the bridge is called a bridge; because the strings cross it and it keeps them up "out of the water", but why is a nut a nut?  Anyone know?

Old age and treachery...
  • henryb
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  • From: Lhanbryde
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: Why call it a "nut"?

Because it,s always been called a  "nut "I guess, what else would you call it. A nut by any other name is always a nut, poetry.

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Re: Why call it a "nut"?

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Re: Why call it a "nut"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_%28str … trument%29

"The word is thought to have come from the German Nut (pronounced "noot"), meaning "groove" or "slot"."

  • henryb
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Re: Why call it a "nut"?

Hence in the "groove".