Sentence examples for tuning pegs from inspiring English sources

There are eight machine tuning pegs with ivory heads.

Tuning pegs replaced the wound thongs of the ancient lyres.

It had a back-curving sickle-shaped pegbox with lateral tuning pegs.

The tuning pegs are set in the sides of the pegbox.

Instead of having its tuning pegs in the headstock, as is customary, this guitar has them in its trapezoidal body.

The violin-type pegbox was replaced about 1600 by a flat, slightly reflexed head with rear tuning pegs; in the 19th century, metal screws were substituted for the tuning pegs.

In the 1890s, frets were added to the long neck, and a machine head with screws replaced the tuning pegs.

That ukulele, whose private use comes to assume a sacramental air for Garner, gets a luscious description: "curvaceous waist and pretty metal frets and creamy tuning pegs.

When she missed a cue, she reacted with startling anger, bashing her guitar against a cymbal stand and breaking its tuning pegs.

He inlaid the sound hole with ivory swans, each pair a valentine of entangled necks,      and fitted tuning pegs of apricot to give a good smell when rubbed.

He wrote the software that controls the device, and says he decided to try it first on a larger bass guitar, which requires a lot of torque to turn the ­tuning pegs.