Starting to upgrade the Black Friday deal guitars I bought after a few drinks on Thanksgiving. I don’t mind the pegs on the bronco, but the sonic p bass are not the greatest. What’s you favorite and why? Also, pls comment on ease of installation. Thx!
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Graphtech ratio tuners. Best tuners I’ve used.
Installation is pretty simple remove the nut then the screw.
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Hipshot Ultralite USA model tuning machines are a great upgrade from OEM tuners.
Note: There are no pegs on electric string instrument headstocks. They are often called “tuners” but their actual names are either tuning machines or tuning machine heads.
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Bass: Hipshot USA Ultralites or Gotoh (various), depending on balance of the instrument. I think the Gotoh tuning machines are better tuners, but the Hipshots are better when you are prioritizing reducing headstock weight.
Guitar: Gotoh Magnum Lock locking tuners.
Maybe in the US. They are commonly referred to as “pegs” in Japan 
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Established nomenclature of acoustic and electric guitars.
Yeah, regional difference I guess.
This is from SoundHouse, basically the Sweetwater of Japan. The highlighted line, “ベース用ペグ” means “pegs for bass” and is a direct transliteration of the english words - “beh-su pegu.”
All (or at least most) other sites use the same description, as do humans.
Just a regional cultural thing maybe? Whatever
A tuning machine head “handle” (what you turn with your fingers) is commonly listed by various manufacturers as a tuning head, grip piece, button or peg.
I can see how “peg”’could have become shorthand for an entire tuning machine, even though it is just one component part of the assembly.
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Yeah I am sure that’s what happened, especially in the case of borrowed/transliterated words like in this case.
Thanks for the info! I wish I could say that I had the Japanese usage in mind, but I was just wrong in my terminology. I’ll check out those listed above.
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