Wrest-pin
peg (def 5).
historical examples
scientific american supplement, no. 385, may 19, 1883 various
noun
(on a piano, harp, etc) a pin around which one end of a string is wound: it may be turned by means of a tuning key to alter the tension of the string. in a piano the wrest pin is embedded in the wrest plank
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