----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:57 pm Subject: Re: Gone 'the whole hog'!
> It is also > the peg > board (note that it is peg board, not peg box). Like my > MusicMakers the > Weiss uses vertical pegs through a board. That works on a modern steel > strung guitar with "tuning machines", but not with friction pegs. > There was > a reason for the peg box with the strings pulling between the two > supportedends of the friction peg, the tuning holds better with > friction at both > ends - and a pull that isn't a cantelever. Yes, I can agree with most of the criticisms of these flat and ugly lute wannabees, and the statement of difficulties related to a flat pehead that contacts pegs in a single plate as opposed to a lute-like pegbox with two contact points for pegs is valid. However, there is plenty of precedent for flat pegheads in iconography of guitars and vihuelas from the dawn of such things; oodles of extant 5-course, 6-course, and early 6-string guitars all the way into the modern flamenco; some renaissance-era citterns; standard Genovese and early Neapolitan mandolins; etc. Yes, a little more awkward and perhaps needing maintenance with a little more frequency than pegs set in a pegbox, but one gets used to it. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
