endpin
end pin

For one end fixed and the other end pinned, 0.70.

Both are joined at the span's end with end pins.

The Kodava woman wears a sari with the pleats at the back and the loose end pinned at the right shoulder.

The cello, a painted Rice Krispies box with a toothbrush for the end pin, was the one Alisa liked most.

The electronics on this guitar have been kept subtly out of sight, the jack socket being concealed in the end pin and the pickup under the split bridge.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

"Fingerboards are always ebony," he said, and fittings - the end pin, tail piece and pegs - are of ebony, rosewood or boxwood.

At one point, he lets Saeed in on a secret: His bass's end pin (the sharp spike on which the instrument rests) can be used as a weapon.

Tailpieces of the violin family or viol families of instruments, including double basses, are attached by a "tailgut" looped around the end pin or end button.

Gibson renamed the Electric Bass in 1958 as the EB-1 (The EB-1 was reissued around 1970, but this time without the end pin.)

Tarawangsa is a genuine popular art is performed on ensemble consists of tarawangsa (a violin with an end pin) and the jentreng (a kind of seven-stringed zither).

Paul Galbraith's contribution to the field is unusual: he plays his guitar as if it were a cello, held vertically and resting on a metal end pin connected to a wooden resonating box.

In order to appeal to upright bass players, the EB-1 featured a telescopic end pin that allowed bassists to play the EB-1 in both the upright and horizontal positions.

For example, if a vibrating beam with both ends pinned displayed a mode shape of half of a sine wave (one peak on the vibrating beam) it would be vibrating in mode 1.

Endpin stops or straps (tradenames include Rockstop and Black Hole) keep the cello from sliding if the end pin does not have a rubber piece on the end (used on wood floors).

Some Hummingbirds produced in 1965 had their sides around the neck and at the end pin painted black to hide where Gibson over-sanded the body, and sanded through the top layer of the mahogany laminated sides.

First unscrewing the end pin (old cellos are clutched between the knees), Mr. Ma turned his Strad over to experts who have refitted the bridge and tailpiece and then strung them with gut rather than metal.

In fact, though, washing ashore on a misty underground dinosaur refuge was less unsettling to contemplate than some EARTH 437 likelier possibilities . . . like meeting their end pinned to a porous wall, the freshet plunging past them through crevices too small for human flesh to pass.