[LUTE] Re: Ebony Pegs Redux

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Barker
about vihuelas or lutes. I'll look. CB -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of William Samson Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 1:42 PM To: co...@medievalist.org; Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ebony Pegs Redux As far as I can

[LUTE] Re: Ebony Pegs Redux

2013-09-30 Thread William Samson
As far as I can tell ebony was not used a lot for tuning pegs throughout the history of the lute - museum catalogues often describe peg material as 'stained fruitwood'. The iconography of pre-1580ish lutes shows that they usually had a blonde finish, and that includes the pegs.