I am neither conventional nor wise, so I can only offer my own personal
experience & opinions:
Most people love them, I wouldn't pay $20 for a barrelful of them. But
they are life saver on Orpharions; or any multi-string, double-course
low tension wire strung instrument. For those instruments, and those
instruments alone, I would consider them almost a necessity.
They are nice on my Baroque lute student's 13 course instrument - but
string changing is his problem!
Hate them on my own 8 course, but I have adapted & gotten used to them-
and that lute is so good I put up with them. The conventional but
exquisitely fitted pegs on my Vihuela are a lot faster & easier than the
Pegheads on my lute; I am used to the quick action of the 1 to 1 "gear
ratio" of no gears! String changes? Instant!
No gears for me, thanks!
Da
On 5/26/2015 6:22 AM, Charles Mokotoff wrote:
I took delivery of a new lute this week that has Pegheads installed.
I've never been one for much authenticity, so this doesn't bug me at
all. All I can say is, where have they been all my lute life? I don't
know what I am going to do with all the extra time I have now. They are
fantastic. The only single thing I miss is the simplicity of removing a
string with conventional pegs, but to be able to just sit there and put
your left hand up to easily tweak tuning feels miraculous to me.
I am curious what the conventional wisdom is on these.
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