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The product range was expanded in the 1970s to include M4 bass tuners, various bridges, including TOM bridges for Gibson guitars, and numerous other variants of pickups. [12] Schaller also created many of its own products, including a novel, double-locking tremolo system designed in 1977 by Floyd D. Rose. [13]
The first and most obvious is a locking plate on the head nut, tightened with a hex key that fixes the strings at this point after tuning. This provides extra tuning stability, particularly while using the vibrato arm—but it also prevents tuning with the machine heads. Floyd Rose Pro kit, double locking with fine tuners.
Fender Roto-matic tuners, and 4 bolt neck plate. 11 screw pickguard. Some models don't have a pickguard. String locking. Fender Schaller System I, System II, System III tremolo systems. Some are fitted with Kahler 2500/2520; Various combinations of single coil and or humbucking pickups on various models.
on bass guitars, where string tension is extremely high, larger, heavier-duty machine heads than those used on guitars are used. Bass tuners generally feature larger knobs than guitar tuners as well; often these are distinctively shaped, and known as "elephant ears". Gear ratios of 20:1 are used often.
The design choices made on the guitar included a high-gloss black finish, simple electronics, a hardtail bridge, locking tuners, and a neon yellow bridge pickup with a matching neon logo on the headstock. It was described as having "futuristic simplicity" in a Guitar.com feature. [12]
Floyd D. Rose first started working on what became the Floyd Rose Tremolo in 1976. [3] He was playing in a rock band at the time, inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple.He frequently used the vibrato bar but could not make his guitars stay in tune using traditional approaches like lubricating the nut, or winding the strings as little as possible around the tuning pegs.