and where can those pegs be bought? Being from the old school,with
lutes built in 1980, I haven't always followed up on the lates
innovations...
A
Bruno
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Miles Dempster
<[1]miles.demps...@gmail.com> wrote:
..now, if somebody could double the length of my left arm, it might
be possible to tune my theorbo diapasons on the fly!
On 2012-08-17, at 1:23 AM, Edward Martin wrote:
> OK, Nancy asked me to jump in, so I will.
>
> The first experience with these pegheds was on Dan Winheld's 8-course
> lute. A I really liked them, a lot.
>
> Then, about a year ago, I took my first plunge with these gears
> (pegheds). A I had them installed on my 6-course vihuela, and they
> immediately solved many, many problems. A First off, baroque guitars
> and vihuelas (probably renaissance guitars) A have problems, in that
> the traditional peg goes through only one hole, as opposed to two
> holes for a lute. A Therefore, the vihuela has a greater tendency to
> slip. A The pegheds remedied this problem, and I later decided, last
> early spring, to have them installed on my 11-course lute. A My
> 11-course baroque lute partner, Tom Walker, also has a lute that is
> an exact match to mine, and he also has pegheds. A So, I have
> experience with 4 instruments in pegheds, (very limited with Dan
> Winheld's 8-course, however). A It improved my 11-course instrument
> dramatically, with better tuning. A This is especially important when
> using gut, and all these instruments are entirely strung in gut.
>
> By the way, Tom'sa lute was just 5 days old (!!) when he received it,
> and we had a concert that night. A The hall filled with people, and
> the heat and humidity went up. A The gut strings were so stable with
> pegheds, that we had NO TUNING for the entire concert, with exception
> of tuning diapasons to a different key!! A That in itself is
remarkable.
>
> Plainly put, I love them. A They are unbelievably smooth, as in a
very
> expensive guitar machine. A They are adjustable in tension - as with
a
> traditional peg, push them in and they will be tighter, pull them
> out, and looser. A Whether in a tight or loose setting, they are
> smooth. A They never slip, never stick. A This summer, with all the
> humidity, I had no problems with stuck or slipping pegs.... they
> stay, it pitch, where you put them. A Speaking of tuning, they are
> geared at 25% as compared to a peg. A For example, if one wanted to
> tune a half step sharp, one turns the gear 4 times further than when
> using a traditional A peg. A That makes for much more accurate
tuning,
> as they will not skip too sharp, as compared to a traditional peg.
A I
> find myself tuning more, but very much faster than before, and yes, I
> tune sometimes while playing. A Tuning with pegheds is actually a joy
> now, as I can tune more accurately, and much faster. A No more sore
> fingers trying to turn stick pegs!!
>
> We all know what it is like to adjust to a certain pitch... we play
> around, get it where we want, let go, and it slips with traditional
> pegs! A Now, I have trust, so I can quickly adjust, without fear of
> slipping; A yes, I can no adjust tuning "on the fly" while playing.
>
> As for weight, Dan Larson has on his web site, comparisons of the
> weights of pegs vs. pegheds. A Different types of wood make different
> weights in pegs. A Pegheds are , if my memory serves me correctly,
> just 2 grams more, or so. A I cannot distinguish any difference in
the
> weight of the neck or instrument, and the pegheds made, in my
> opinion, no difference whatsoever in sound, other than sounding
> better because I can now tune more accurately, therefore sounding
> better. A No, the 11-course lute does have any perception to added
weight.
>
> There are 2 drawbacks:
>
> 1. When changing a string, because the pegheds do not slip, one has
> to un-wind the peghed to get the old string out. A This is not a
> problem, as the added time (perhaps 7-8 seconds) lost is nothing,
> compared to the time saved in fast and accurate tuning.
> 2. A For those that only want authenticity, pegheds were not used in
> old times. A Neither was nylgut, nylon, carbon, or perhaps wound
> strings for that matter! A Many people who saw them on my lute this
> summer were fooled, into thinking they were ebony (they are not).
>
> Thanks for asking..................I would put them on all my
> instruments, if I could afford to do so.
>
>
>
>
> At 12:45 PM 8/16/2012, Ken Brodkey wrote:
>> Has anyone tried the mechanical pegs made by Pegheds? I have a
>> customer who is interested in replacing his traditional pegs with
>> these. Any comments are much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
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