Headstock
Part of the guitar which houses the pegs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about part of a stringed instrument. For motorized chuck component, see lathe. For other uses, see Headstock (disambiguation).
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 family. At the "tail" of the instrument the strings are usually held by a tailpiece or bridge. Machine heads on the headstock are commonly used to tune the instrument by adjusting the tension of strings and, consequently, the pitch of sound they produce.