These instruments use a zero fret-a fret at the beginning of the scale where a normal nut would be that provides the correct string clearance. The nuts on some instruments are notched deeply enough that they are just string spacers. Not all string instruments have nuts as described. The Italian term, capo tasto (or capotasto "head of fretboard"), is the origin of the capo. In French, the nut is known as a fr:sillet, which, like German, can also translate to mean saddle. The nut, however, is called a de:Sattel ("saddle" also Obersattel) in German, whereas the part of a guitar known as the saddle in English, the surface of the bridge on which the strings rest, is called a de:Stegeinlage or Steg, in German. The word may have come from the German Nut (pronounced "noot"), meaning groove or slot.
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