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Escribano
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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy
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RE: Peg Head (in reply to sean65)
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Do the peg head designs have any advantages/disadvantages over regular heads or is it just an aesthetic. Better tuning stability, easier string changes, tone etc...? I enclose a relevant transcript from my documentary about Anders: What's the difference, apart from the obvious difference, between pegs and the mechanical tuners? Two things. Aesthetics and sound Aesthetics? Well this is obvious I personally think they are very beautiful Pegheads. I used to play the violin so I've got this thing with pegs. And soundwise, especially on blancas They give a drier, faster responding guitar They're lighter, you've got the... The string tension is going directly into the headstock and not passing through some wormed gear So they make the guitar sound brighter? I wouldn't call it brighter. I would just call it drier... there's less weight, less sustain There's less weight in the headstock. Weight in the headstock means sustain Everything up here which weighs, means sustain Because it vibrates from the strings and when a mass or something heavy vibrates it makes the string vibrate for a longer time So it [less weight] gives less sustain I think a lot of people choose pegs for their looks Me as well Some people, they choose it because when you sit in the traditional flamenco position The guitar is lighter And it just feels right Because in all the pictures of Niño Ricardo and Sabicas and stuff like that They were always playing pegheads They obviously were first in construction? Yes, yes, of course but you continued using pegs for a long time on flamenco guitars Because of money. Because the machine tuners, they were expensive at first I guess you could repair pegs as well? Of course You can just simply throw them out and put some new ones in... and what I do now
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