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  2. 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.

  3. 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

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

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  5. Lotus (guitar) - Wikipedia

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    Lotus from the mid 1990s is in the shape of a mutated fender jazzmaster. Lotus was a house brand belonging to Midco International of Illinois. The brand was applied to guitars, basses, banjos, and mandolins made in various Asian factories from the late 1970s until the early 2000s.

  6. 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]

  7. Vega Company - Wikipedia

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    Vega initially labeled these instruments A. C. Fairbanks, then switched to Fairbanks banjo by the Vega Co., then eventually to just Vega. David L. Day, who had been the chief acoustical designer at Fairbanks, became general manager of the Vega stringed instrument division and continued to develop innovative and successful banjo designs.

  8. How the cast of 'A Complete Unknown' found their way ... - AOL

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    That banjo was his shield.' She described him to me as a Calvinist preacher." Baez also helped Barbaro shape her portrayal of the singer, who was already famous (Time put her on its cover in 1962 ...

  9. Sigma Guitars - Wikipedia

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    The headstock shape was also modified to a deeper taper and shaped to resemble the Martin instruments. As is traditional with classical instruments, Sigma classical guitars do not have the headstock logo, and one must rely on the inner label for identification.