This is true about silica... And the fact that ebony dries at different rates with and across the grain. I have recently noticed that a number of fine violins have light colored pegs, possibly boxwood. I have observed this more in recent years than in the 1970s and earlier. I wish I could remember where I read the article about ebony pegs going out of round.
Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of howard posner Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:54 AM To: lute list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ebony Pegs On Sep 28, 2013, at 5:48 PM, co...@medievalist.org wrote: > I know that today we know there's too much silica in ebony to use as > tuning pegs This will come as a surprise to most of the violinists in the world. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
