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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.
These tunings are frequently used in the playing of slide and lap-slide ("Hawaiian") guitars, and Hawaiian slack key music. [22] [24] A musician who is well known for using open tuning in his music is Ry Cooder, who uses open tunings when playing the slide guitar. [23]
Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing, which has been used for centuries, involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
F tuning – F-A ♯-D ♯-G ♯-C-F / F-B ♭-E ♭-A ♭-C-F Five and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used by the deathgrind band Maruta, the instrumental doom metal band Bongripper, and the progressive metal band Meshuggah (however the band uses 8-string guitars). Octave tuning – E-A-D-G-B-E Six full steps (one octave) down from ...
A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine heads are used on mandolins, guitars, double basses and others, and are usually located on the instrument's headstock. Other names for guitar tuners include pegs, gears ...
Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).