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2. Machine head - Wikipedia

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   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 decorations. Martin EB18 bass guitar headstock, showing Martin open-type machine heads. The reverse of the machine heads on a "folk" steel-string acoustic guitar.

3. Bridge (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   Bridge pins or string pegs are used on some musical instruments to locate the string precisely in the horizontal plane, and in the case of harpsichords to affect the sustain of the strings. They are usually made of steel in modern pianos , of brass in harpsichords , and bone or synthetics on acoustic guitars .

4. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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   Turning the peg or pin tightens or loosens the string. Some tuning pegs and pins are tapered, some threaded. Some tuning pegs are ornamented with shell, metal, or plastic inlays, beads (pips) or rings. Other tuning systems include screw-and-lever tuners, geared tuners, and the konso friction tuning system (using braided leather rings).

5. Headstock - Wikipedia

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   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

6. Grover Musical Products, Inc. - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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   The steel-strings increased tension on the neck; for stability, Martin reinforced the neck with a steel truss rod, which became standard in later steel-string guitars. [13] Many acoustic guitars incorporate rosettes around the sound hole. An acoustic guitar can be amplified by using various types of pickups or microphones.