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Originally Posted by Bob Womack
From what I've heard, these days all the tuners except Schallers are made by Ping in China. Interestingly enough, I've had Grovers from multiple eras from 1974 to 2001 to 2005 to 2018 haven't had a single failure. It used to be de rigueur to change your tuners to Grovers or no-one thought you were "professional."
Bob
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It is funny how things change - it wasn’t just acoustics, the Grovers went straight on electrics worldwide for a while there....you were looked on as some kind of fool if you kept the original tuners whatever they were! And I vaguely remember something about brass nuts about the same time and the pickups had to be.......humbuckers! Even if you had to drill.
Rotos I have been very lucky with, so far, except for some on a J45 a few years back where I tightened the little adjustment screw too much and it made all the tuners....tight, of course.
The absolute shockers I have are the Golden Age Tuners on my beater, Martin 000-17. Click, clack, klunk. Horrible.
BluesKing777.