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Grover Musical Products, Inc., is an Ohio based American company that designs, imports, and distributes stringed instrument tuners (machine heads) for guitars, bass guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, ukuleles, and other instruments. Grover also imports and distributes tuning pegs for violins and bridges for five-string and tenor banjos.
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. Exposed gears are much more common in premium bass guitars than in six-string non-bass instruments. The machine heads on a classical guitar. Note the exposed gears and the ...
Tuning pegs on a tro. A tapered peg is simply a smooth peg with a string wound around it. The tension of the string is controlled by turning the peg, and the peg is held in place by friction in its hole (in contrast to tuning machines, below). A properly working peg will turn easily and hold reliably, that is, it will neither stick nor slip.
Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...
Classical guitar headstock. A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instruments such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage. . The main function of a headstock is to house the tuning pegs or other mechanism that holds the strings at the "head" of the instrument; it corresponds to a pegbox in the violin fami
A later tuning was BEADGBE, following standard seven-string-guitar tuning (EADGBE plus a low B). He later narrowed the neck down to convert it to a six-string instrument, tuned EADGBE. In 1995, luthier Bill Conklin made a nine-string bass for Bill "Buddha" Dickens, and, in 1999, luthier Alfonso Iturra made an eight-string bass for Igor Saavedra ...