I wonder if they sell the mechanism so you could use something other
than ebony. Most of my lutes use boxwood. The pegs also taper in size
down to very small ones on the upper peg box of my swan neck.
On a related topic, I use a tee handle peg wrench which allows very
delicate tuni
I spoke with the maker of 'Peghed' mechanical pegs and he said the pegs
weigh 6 grams. Most wooden pegs way somewhere between 3 and 3.5 gram or
so. For an 8-course lute, using 3.5 grams per wooden peg, this would
add about 37.5 grams or just under 1-1/3 ounces.
Ken
On 8/16/2012 1:28 PM, Loui
I have them on my 8 course lute- 62 cm. Have not weighed them, but I
feel no perceptible pegbox weight beyond the usual, which for this size
& type of lute is negligible to non-existent. It would, of course, be
instructive to weigh one & compare to normal pegs of comparable size
made from the u
Ed Martin needs to add to this discussion. He has a baroque lute with
peg heads and was showing it off to everyone in Cleveland. Those pegs
look great and work great. He told me they weighed a tiny bit mroe, but
he could not notice the difference.
Nancy
At 01:28 PM 8/16/2012, Lou
I wonder if they weigh a lot more? An 8 course lute with pegs that are
an ounce heavier means a pegbox that is pound heavier.
Louis Aull
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