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  2. 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

  3. Shamisen - Wikipedia

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    Its construction follows a model similar to that of a guitar or a banjo, with a neck and strings stretched across a resonating body. The neck of the shamisen is fretless and slimmer than that of a guitar or banjo. The body, called the dō (胴), resembles a drum, having a hollow body that is covered front and back with skin, in the manner of a ...

  4. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    The first banjo method was the Briggs' Banjo instructor (1855) by Tom Briggs. [36] Other methods included Howe's New American Banjo School (1857), and Phil Rice's Method for the Banjo, With or Without a Master (1858). [36] These books taught the "stroke style" or "banjo style", similar to modern "frailing" or "clawhammer" styles. [36]

  5. American Banjo Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum has a banjo from 1845 that was made by Boucher, who is "widely accepted as the first commercial maker of banjos in the United States" according to the museum's display placard. [15] The museum's permanent collection also includes an 1840s five-string banjo that has a peghead shaped like a lyre by an unknown luthier. [16]

  6. File:Double-scroll peghead from 1840s banjo, American Banjo ...

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  7. Samuel Swaim Stewart - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]

  8. Machine head - Wikipedia

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    Martin EB18 bass guitar headstock, showing Martin open-type machine heads. The reverse of the machine heads on a "folk" steel-string acoustic guitar. Note the enclosed gears. On some guitars, such as those with Floyd Rose bridge, string tuning may be also conducted using microtuning tuners incorporated into the guitar bridge.

  9. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuning pegs with knobs on a veena.. Tapered pegs are a simple, ancient design, common in many musical traditions. Tapered pegs are common on classical Indian instruments such as the sitar, the Saraswati veena, and the sarod, but some like the esraj and Mohan veena often use modern tuning machines instead.