Dear All:
These secret pegs may seem like a good idea but a friend who got a viola da
gamba with them reports that they do not work properly (they slip) and a
luthier suggested drilling them out and replacing them with traditional wooden
pegs.
It is possible that she did not maintain them properly or did not follow
instructions or some such, but I am very skeptical of this.
Jim Stimson
From: Anthony Hind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/02/26 Tue PM 06:15:24 CST
To: David Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: secret pegs
Do you mean these, David?
http://www.elderly.com/accessories/items/PVP1T.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2au88d
Making holes for them:
http://tinyurl.com/2e2pmx
No they are not mine, but someone sent me the photos. I was a little
scared at the idea of fitting them, and also the non-historic
appearence.
Perhaps the new ones are better?
Anthony
Le 27 fevr. 08 =E0 00:48, David Tayler a ecrit :
> I saw the secret pegs on a friend's viola da gamba.
> They look exactly like pegs, but have gears inside.
> Very cool. And historical! There are literally thousands of paintings
> which show pegs that may very well
> have gears inside that we can't see. This is far more persuasive than
> all the paintings of natural trumpets that have holes in them that we
> can't see.
>
> Anyway, I thought these pegs would be great for wire strung
> instruments in the lute/bandora family.
> dt
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