Your luthier can get them, or you may be able to buy them directly from pegheds.com, as noted already.
However, installation of pegheds and other mechanical-advantage pegs is not for beginners or the faint of heart. They must be glued into the hole on one side of the pegbox, while the other side is left free to turn. It requires a specialist reamer, a very good hand, great care to do it right. And, if they must be removed, the glued side (while not difficult to clean out) must be reamed out and bushed to get it back to original size. Additionally, the norm is to pre-fit the pegs after reaming, cut and sand the end so it is close to the side of the glued hole, and possibly re-finish it. All of this requires the kind of dexterity with tools that doesn't automatically come with dexterity with fingerboards and string plucking! I don't have experience with them on lute. I do have experience with them on 'cellos: my wife has played-in a Heide with them, and we loved the ease, accuracy and staying power of them. So when we bought her latest, we had our Luthier install a set. And when I get my french viol, it will either have them, or make a trip to the luthier for them. They look authentic (the companies which make them are being very good about that!) and they do nothing bad to the instrument, as long as they are properly installed. With period strings (gut, gimped, loaded or open-wound) they'll be a balm! On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM, <co...@medievalist.org> wrote: > Bruno asked: >> >> and where can those pegs be bought? Being from the old school,with >> lutes built in 1980, I haven't always followed up on the lates >> innovations... > > http://www.pegheds.com/ > > Craig > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
