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since the bridge is a kind of fixed starting point for the string (like a backstop), the further you move away from that the more fronter you are.
& if 'fronter' wasn't a word already then i call it mine.
I dont dispute the naming convention, and I dont know who started it, but I merely maintain its illogical and wrong. As I said before, bridge, middle and neck are the only descriptors that are clear and understood by everyone.
The tailpiece is at one end of the strings and the headstock is at the other. Near to the tail = rear, near to the head = front.
Also, which is offside and which is nearside?
Just off now to change the splange grommet on my furglewurst.
To me... this front and back thing seems like an arbitrary convention that some long-forgotten geezer decided upon waaay back in time... and, for some reason, it stuck. Some of the theories why this is the front pickup and this is the back seem like attempts to apply logic - after the convention was coined. Naming the pickups... bridge pickup... middle pickup... neck pickup... is far less ambiguous and doesn't need some convoluted theory to explain what it means (unless you've got a 4 pickup guitar).
The guitar world is full of this stuff...
Why did Leo Fender call it a tremolo arm... when it controls vibrato - not tremolo?
Nah... I'm not so sure about that. Calling it a vibrator arm could've been a cost-free way of widening the object's potential market - by about 50%.
Totally correct... and may I be the first to welcome you to our little club.