All About Pegs
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- We get a lot of questions about pegs. That makes perfect sense, considering that the first thing you generally do when you pick up your instrument is to tune it.
We'll talk about all things related to pegs: how they work, what makes them slip/stick, how to resolve that, what geared pegs are and how they work, and what does a post-peg world look like.
We compare Wittner and Perfection Pegs.
We even touch on left hand conversions - at least from a peg-box perspective.
I put geared tuners on all my string instruments....acoustic and electric cellos, violins, violas. LOVE ‘EM. I live in Wisconsin where humidity level varies widely.
I am mechanical engineer and I must say that you explained it perfectly like a truly passionate and professional profesor. Thank you so much for your explanation. CZcams must recommend you at first when searching electric/silent violin, you deserve it. Great job!!!
Thanks so much!
Thanks! Awesome, informative, & great illustrations!
Perfectly explained. Thank you very much!
Electric Violin Shop The interest of using Mechanical Machine Head Pegs on a Violin, Viola, or Cello actually went back up today because Wittner & Knilling made special versions shaped like traditional pegs. Some players prefer the Guitar style Tuners due to the versatility & less frustrating look. Now all those Acoustic instruments that alot of people thing don't look traditional, they're really just ergonomic variations of the traditional design.
You can add wood to a peg hole. It's common to do this to older violins where the peg holes have been worn and gotten too big. It's called "bushings" and if done well it's barely noticeable.
The Viper Violin has Guitar machine heads (I'm replacing the Friction pegs on my 5 String Cello w/ Machine heads) so it really works.
This is why I'm replacing the Friction pegs on my 5 String Cello with Brass Tuning Machines.
Have you tried the metal tuners that screw into the side of the cello and look more like guitar tuners?
Yeah I know about the temperature change. Playing a festival in the early 90s with a cover band where I had to switch from guitar to fiddle in the middle of covering "That Alabama Song". Worked ok in bars but at a beer garden set with 3000 people and a handful of 'battle of these silly bar band' judges I couldn't get my front mans attention as I noticed the canopy shadow had moved away from where I had my fiddle handy for this precarious instrument switch. A hundred degrees that day, all strings were limp noodles. Quite the embarrassment.
They make machine heads which facilitate tuning it up.
These will all work with acoustic violins?
How do you change the strings?
Great question. Each set of pegs/tuners is different. If you're asking about geared pegs, you have to thread the new string into the hole in the peg. You might have to loosen and move some of the nearby strings to the side to access that hole since you can't pull the peg out.
Hi, do you have the exact reference for the black glasser violin with perfection pegs ?
www.electricviolinshop.com/violins/violins-by-brand/glasser.html
@@ElectricViolinShop Imbus pegs are really just Friction pegs operated by an allen Key, it would rock if they had Geared versions of those pegs.