Frank's big tuners were for a bass. The production tuners are normal size.
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Anyway, as a famous banjo soloist, Bechtel was used to using banjo tuners, so that’s what the first Martin OM’s came equipped with
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Actually, the very first OM's had a slotted headstock. Martin's reissue of Perry's first OM was the same. I own the third one made (#39904, dated Oct 15, 1929), and it has a slotted headstock and a 1 13/16" nut width. However, I do own three other early OM's with banjo tuners.
My tuning woes ended when I installed Gotoh planetary tuners on my player grade 1930 OM-28. Not only are they smoother and infinitely easier to tune than Waverlys, they are lighter, to boot.