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The Beacon Banjo Company of Woodstock, New York was founded in January 1964 by banjo player Bill Keith and his college friend Dan Bump to manufacture and market their new D-tuners, now commonly called Keith tuners. With these tuners, banjo players can change pitches accurately while playing.
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.
The earliest sealed tuners, as early as 1972 (e.g. DR-9, DR-11) had a 6-sided cast body and no brand name (11:1 ratio,) while there were others later on that more resembled Schaller (stop screw to the inside, Schaller style buttons.) [13] or Grover tuners (stop screw below but without the familiar crescent knob.) [14] Few of these sealed tuners ...
Schaller GmbH is a German manufacturer of musical instrument hardware, based in Postbauer-Heng near Nuremberg, Bavaria, which designs and produces guitar tuners, bridges, tremolos, strap locks and other guitar accessories. The company has been owned by Dr Lars Bünning since 2009.
The company was founded as a machine shop by John Kluson in Chicago in 1925. [1] Kluson had previously run a machine shop for Harmony Company.Kluson Manufacturing soon found a niche making tuners for string instruments, most prominently for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, to whom they were a major supplier.
Charlie Poole taught Shelor’s grandfather the banjo, and Shelor’s grandfather in turn taught Shelor. [3] When Shelor was four years old, growing up in southwestern Virginia, his grandfather fashioned a banjo for him from an old pressure cooker lid. His other grandfather promised to buy Shelor a real banjo if he learned to play two songs.
Scruggs himself became a partner in the venture for a while, and the product was known as "Scruggs-Keith Tuners". Known today simply as Keith Tuners, they remain the state of the art, and Bill Keith continued to manufacture and market them personally as the primary product of his own company, the Beacon Banjo Company , until his death.
Washburn Presentation Banjo, 1894, American Banjo Museum. George Lyon retired from the company in 1889 (died 1894). Patrick Healy then led the company into a period of major expansion, beginning with a larger new factory and improved mass-production techniques, and soon dominated the domestic market. [ 5 ]
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