On Monday 02 January 2006 18:10, you wrote: > A bit mundane, "lo siento mucho". Do pegs wear out? >
Yes, they do wear out. The symptoms are the usual problems like a peg which is either not turnable unless by using tongs or jumping out of the hole after loosening the peg. The wearing depends a little bit on what you use for lubricating the pegs. I use standard brown violin pegstuff with soap, others use french chalk. Chalk will wear the pegs slightly more I presume. The fixing can be done by a lutemaker. They have the coneshaped scraping tools for getting the holes and pegs fixed. Don't start doing anything with sandpaper or something else, it will make things worse. Sometimes a new set of pegs are necessary. Violinmakers have such coneshaped tools too, but lutes need a different size than a violin or viola. If the violinmaker has some of the modern tunable tools they can do it for you. taco > If so, how long does it take, and what are the symptoms, > and what do you have to do to fix it? > > I tried a Google search on this subject, figuring the > violin community might provide an abundance > of information, but such was not the case. > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
