Where/when did the use of tuning machines with unequal shaft lengths originate? Is this a Loar F5 innovation for use on the florentine headstock?
Where/when did the use of tuning machines with unequal shaft lengths originate? Is this a Loar F5 innovation for use on the florentine headstock?
Wye Knot
It is neither Loar-specific nor even Gibson-specific, although Gibson may have been the first to use them on mandolins. Well before Gibson and their florentine mandolin headstock there was the Stauffer Martin guitars with their curly headstock (from the mid-1830's):
You can see what the tuners for these look like in these modern reproductions from Rodgers:
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