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Peter Tsiorba
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From: Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest
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RE: Planetary Pegs (in reply to alaskaal)
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ORIGINAL: alaskaal ... How can a planetary peg take less maintenance than a peg? That makes no sense. Al Al, Traditional pegs are a beautiful, simples and the ultimate "minimalist" solution. I like it very much myself. So, in essence, I agree with you, provided the pegs are accurately installed and detailed. As a luthier, however, I have also found that some players are not comfortable with traditional wooden pegs. Sometimes, it is due to arthritis, or other injuries. Other times, due to general weakness in the wrist and fingers. For those individuals, it is helpful to have a bit of mechanical advantage. Ultimately, though, the least maintenance prone mechanical tuners are the standard tuning machines. The peg, mechanical or not, has a bit of a learning curve. These are my thoughts, based on my observations of players (of varying degrees of ability), commenting and sometimes struggling with the mechanical and traditional pegs.
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Date Jun. 21 2011 2:46:14
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Peter Tsiorba
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RE: Planetary Pegs (in reply to Steve Wright)
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ORIGINAL: Steve Wright That being so then, it would still be possible to engineer the peg so that the winding area of the peg was the same as a standard size peg, hence retaining the accuracy?? The trouble is that there is no "standard size" wooden peg. Even if there was a set standard, it would only work in a brand new guitar. As decades go by, peg holes will "grow" a little. For that reason, there is a strong logical reason to start out new guitars with thinner pegs. At lest that's what I prefer to do. As the guitar ages, and the pegs/peg holes wear, there will be room to slowly increase the peg size. Have you seen old flamenco guitars, from early 1900's? Most of them have fairly stout pegs, and I can say with near-certainty that those thicker pegs are not original. They are that size because wear and small adjustments over the years necessitated thicker pegs.
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Date Jun. 24 2011 17:58:47
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