endpin

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Etymology

From end +‎ pin.

Noun

endpin (plural endpins)

  1. (music, lutherie) The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.
    • 2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in New York Times‎:
      Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.
  2. (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton.

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