by Barry Guest » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:15 am
I understand that I shouldn't post pics of incomplete work, but this is meant to draw attention to a discussion on the peghead of the Violin. Besides, I will not finish this instrument until later in the year. We leave on a 6 month wood odyssey in outback Australia in a few days.(I should qualify...my wife will be holidaying and sightseeing while I will be looking for wood!)
Anyway, back to the subject. The tuners used on this instrument are the "relatively" new Gotoh Stealth tuners. They weigh only one gram more than the traditional ebony peg, or 4 grams more in total (.14 ounces). They have a gear ration of 18:1 and are very accurate.
I hear you ask why? Well, there have been many attempts to "modernize" violin tuning and I believe that these tuners do just that. Weight has always been an issue at the scroll end of the violin. These tuners remove that issue, and opens up a plethora of design possibilities at the peghead.
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