About the pegs - guitar tuning pegs would be so heavy that the
instruments would be listing toward the left in our laps. Fortunately
the Peghead people have pegs that works well on lutes, vihuelas and
orpharions.
http://www.pegheds.com/
I have peg heads on one of my orpharions and love them. They look like
regular lute pegs and the tuning is a dream. They are especially nice
with my wire strings - now I spend more time playing and less time
tuning. The tiny gears inside the peg are configured so that you turn
the peg something like 3 times more than a wooden peg.
There are a couple of other people with Pegheads on the luts list - Dan
Winheld is not a fan of them, but Ed Martin has them on a baroque lute
and he likes them.
I sometimes get a sense however that there is some taboo in searching
out new adaptations of lute music or lutes themselves. I've long
lamented the apparent resistance of using modern tuning machines
on a lute for example. Had they been available at the time, I'm
rather certain
that the old masters would have joyously adopted them. I guess it's
like asking what Bach would have done if he had a pedal. I'm
more interested in what I will do now that I have one.
Tobiah
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