aYes, Nancy is correct. A I do use pegheds on my 11-course baroque lute, and my vihuela as well. A They are absolutely marvelous, a new revelation in tuning. A One can tune easily, more accurately than before, and much quicker. A a
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nancy Carlin <[1][email protected]> wrote: 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. [2]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. A They are especially nice with my wire strings - now I spend more time playing and less time tuning. A 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. A I've long lamented the apparent resistance of using modern tuning machines on a lute for example. A Had they been available at the time, I'm rather certain that the old masters would have joyously adopted them. A 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 To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Nancy Carlin Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA [4]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org PO Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA [5]925 / 686-5800 [6]www.groundsanddivisions.info [7]www.nancycarlinassociates.com -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.pegheds.com/ 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 5. tel:925%20%2F%20686-5800 6. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 7. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/
