Tuning peg

As vortices are stringed instruments, the rotatable wooden pegs or metal pins on which the string ends are rolled up, respectively. With their help, the tension of the strings can be changed and the instrument to be tuned so. The area in which the vertebrae are attached is called the peg box or headstock. The vortex of upright and grand pianos and Kiel instruments sit in the wooden sound post.

Modern String Instruments have today usually also has fine tuners, so that the vortex purposes only coarse mood here. The wooden pins - with good quality ebony - are manufactured by fluidized turners, for which there is a separate profession to master craftsman. Artfully crafted deposits of gold, silver or ivory into the vortex heads were very popular especially in the first half of the 20th century.

Depending on the nature of the vortex they can - such as the violin - can be turned by hand; with other instruments do you need your own tuning key (eg, piano, zither). For certain instruments, the vortex over a tuning machine are turned. For the cello already exist vortex with integrated gear that will make an additional fine tuners unnecessary.

For instruments with the neck vertebrae are distinguished depending on the position of the vortex beam. There are:

• Front- permanent eddy, for example, when Fidel
• Behind permanent eddy, for example in the guitar
• Pendent vertebrae, for example when the violin

In stringed keyboard instruments such as harpsichord, fortepiano, piano etc. is called the vortex also " voice nails " because they are made of metal and are driven into the reed block. The visible top of the reed block, in which they sit in a modern concert grand piano over 200 vertebrae, also called " vortex field ".

• Component ( string instrument)