I only hate them on my own instrument. On all the others I've tried,
including one of my Baroque lute student's new Larson Burkholtzer copy,
I grudgingly admit that they are fabulous. Until you have to change a
string. :-D
Dan
On 8/4/2014 10:44 AM, Edward Martin wrote:
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
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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/
