peghead
nounEtymology From peg + head.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The part of a stringed instrument, at the end of the neck, that holds the pegs or mechanical tuners used to control string tension.
- Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle.2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 22: