to tune different stringed instruments. Most change the pitch produced when the string is played by adjusting the tension of the strings. A tuning peg...

referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine...

This is a chart of stringed instrument tunings. Instruments are listed alphabetically by their most commonly known name. A course may consist of one or...

musical instrument to adjust or correct the input signal to the desired pitch Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments, such as tuning pegs, tuning pins...

and indeed other brass band instruments, have a trigger for the main tuning slide. The two major types of valve mechanisms are rotary valves and piston...

more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings. By the 17th century, the mechanisms of keyboard instruments such as the clavichord...

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held...

orchestral stringed instruments, some basses have non-functional, ornamental tuning pegs projecting from the side of the pegbox, in imitation of the tuning pegs...

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers...

standards varied over time and from place to place. String instruments Stringed instrument tunings Turkish music Greek music Cretan music Early music Medieval...

vitula." The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung...

instrument makers to use thinner strings for the lowest-pitched strings, which made the lower-pitch strings easier to play. On stringed instruments in...

by other instruments in the ensemble. Although the drum is tuned by the player, this tuning does not relate to the pitches of other instruments. The snare...

fan, or watchkey tuners) is a type of machine head tuning system for string instruments, named for English cittern (English guitar) maker John Preston...

(Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known...

and Latin lyra) is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments. In organology, a lyre...

EverTune is an American company that produces the EverTune bridge, designed to keep guitar strings in tune. Stringed instruments, particularly guitars...

a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Instruments featuring polyphony are...

The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical...

later than the 8th century, and is the parent of many bowed and stringed instruments. There are chiefly three main types: A long-necked bowed variety...

instrument popular with skiffle and jug bands, and features a single string which is manipulated via a pulley-and-lever system. The pulley mechanism is...

for insight into French baroque tuning; "Since most of these semitones are absolutely necessary in the tuning of organs and other similar instruments...

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...

a string instrument belonging to the zither family. It uses a series of bars individually configured to mute all strings other than those needed for the...

"violone" today usually refers to the lowest-pitched instrument of the viols, a family of stringed instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the...

the free dictionary. A machine head is part of the tuning mechanism of some stringed instruments. Machine Head or Machinehead may also refer to: Machine...

[is true] for man [other ancient instruments]... Gaver, Elizabeth (Spring 2007). The (Re)construction of music for bowed stringed instruments in Norway...

the instrument. Musicians also use capos to bring a guitar tuned below standard up to standard tuning. Manufacturers sometimes recommend tuning a twelve-string...