end pin

British  

noun

1. music the adjustable metal spike attached to the bottom of a cello, double bass, etc, that supports it while it is being played

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end pin

Run the wire through both eyes and begin wrapping behind the tag end pin, down both jaws and onto the leader.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Why, I'm going to put another wheel on this long end pin, and set another one above it, and put a strap over both of them."

From Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Fashion a piece of wood so that it fits easily into the hole at the end of the violin in which, later, the end pin is inserted.

From Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. by Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson