They might take a wee bit longer to change a string when using pegged a, but the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> -- Nancy Carlin Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA >>> [4]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org PO Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 >>> USA [5]925 / 686-5800 [6]www.groundsanddivisions.info >>> [7]www.nancycarlinassociates.com >>> >>> -- >>> >>> 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. >>> http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ > >
