On 08/04/2014 10:56 AM, Dan Winheld wrote:
I only hate them on my own instrument. On all the others I've tried,
including one of my Baroque lute student's new Larson Burkholtzer
copy, I grudgingly admit that they are fabulous. Until you have to
change a string. :-D
Right. I have a little crank designed to help with changing strings
on a guitar. You slide it over the little tuning handle and crank
away. It goes pretty quickly. Are you saying you hate them on
your own instrument and so you don't install them, or that you have
them and hate them, but only on your instrument?
On 8/4/2014 10:44 AM, Edward Martin wrote:
aYes, Nancy is correct. A I do use pegheds on my 11-course baroque
lute, and my vihuela as well. A They are absolutely marvelous, a
new revelation in tuning. A One can tune easily, more accurately
than before, and much quicker. A a
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nancy Carlin
<[1]na...@nancycarlinassociates.com> wrote:
About the pegs - guitar tuning pegs would be so heavy that the
instruments would be listing toward the left in our laps.
Fortunately the Peghead people have pegs that works well on lutes,
vihuelas and orpharions. [2]http://www.pegheds.com/ I have peg
heads on one of my orpharions and love them. They look like regular
lute pegs and the tuning is a dream. A They are especially nice
with my wire strings - now I spend more time playing and less time
tuning. A The tiny gears inside the peg are configured so that you
turn the peg something like 3 times more than a wooden peg. There
are a couple of other people with Pegheads on the luts list - Dan
Winheld is not a fan of them, but Ed Martin has them on a baroque
lute and he likes them.
I sometimes get a sense however that there is some taboo in
searching out new adaptations of lute music or lutes themselves. A
I've long lamented the apparent resistance of using modern tuning
machines on a lute for example. A Had they been available at the
time, I'm rather certain that the old masters would have joyously
adopted them. A I guess it's like asking what Bach would have done
if he had a pedal. I'm more interested in what I will do now that I
have one.
Tobiah
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References
1. mailto:na...@nancycarlinassociates.com 2.
http://www.pegheds.com/ 3.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4.
http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 5. tel:925%20%2F%20686-5800 6.
http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 7.
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