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2. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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   One end is pierced for the string; the other is squared off to fit in a tuning lever socket. The middle section, which would pass through the wood, is tapered. A variety of methods are used to tune different stringed instruments. Most change the pitch produced when the string is played by adjusting the tension of the strings.

3. Machine head - Wikipedia

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   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 .

4. Twelve-string guitar - Wikipedia

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   An acoustic 12-string guitar hand-crafted in 1977. A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned ...

5. Rickenbacker 360/12 - Wikipedia

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   Rickenbacker used an innovative headstock design that incorporates both a slotted-style peghead and a solid peghead, thereby eliminating the need for the larger headstock normally associated with a 12-string guitar. Another feature unique to Rickenbacker 12-strings is the ordering of the courses. Most 12-strings have the octave course on the ...

6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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   Guitar, bass (12-string) 12 strings 4 courses. E 2 E 2 E 1 •A 2 A 2 A 1 •D 3 D 3 D 2 •G 3 G 3 G 2: Twelve-string bass guitar, 12-string bass US Similar to an 8-string bass with doubled upper octaves. Guitar, octave: 6 strings 6 courses. E 3 •A 3 •D 4 •G 4 •B 4 •E 5: Piccolo Guitar, Soprano Guitar Germany One octave higher than ...

7. 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