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. UA-cam must recommend you at first when searching electric/silent violin, you deserve it. Great job!!!
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.
I once had a fiddle designed for guitar tuners fitted with Steinberger tuners, a name you might recognize from NS Designs (NS is Ned Steinberger). The knobs stick straight out the back, and I found them much more ergonomic on a fiddle than regular guitar tuners.
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.
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.
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.
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. UA-cam must recommend you at first when searching electric/silent violin, you deserve it. Great job!!!
Thanks so 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.
Thanks! Awesome, informative, & great illustrations!
I once had a fiddle designed for guitar tuners fitted with Steinberger tuners, a name you might recognize from NS Designs (NS is Ned Steinberger). The knobs stick straight out the back, and I found them much more ergonomic on a fiddle than regular guitar tuners.
Perfectly explained. Thank you very much!
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.
My new violin has planetary pegs, probably some people will see it as sacrilegious but I honestly love them
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.
Have you tried the metal tuners that screw into the side of the cello and look more like guitar tuners?
This is why I'm replacing the Friction pegs on my 5 String Cello with Brass Tuning Machines.
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.
These will all work with acoustic violins?
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.
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.