Wittner Finetune Violin Pegs. Black
By Wittner
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Description
Prices are PER PEG.
These clever pegs enable easy and accurate tuning without the need for fine tuners on the tailpiece. Professional fitting strongly advised. Pegs sized by diameter of the shaft at the collar. See illustration.
To allow for fitting, the peg side hole in the pegbox of the instrument should be a minimum of 1mm less than this diameter.
Please note the use of a tapered reamer is essential to fit these pegs correctly. Click here for details of this product.
Specifications
- Hi tech plastic.
- Enclosed gears with 8.5:1 turning ratio for very accurate tuning.
- No moving part in contact with the instrument.
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Customer reviews:
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Beginner
Excellent, stop wasting time tuning start playing
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Pros: Tuning very easy. No slipping pegs. Super fast delivery. Fitting is very easy, perhaps a little DIY experience helps.
Cons: Knowing which size to buy, is a bit difficult. I am upgrading three violins and two violas, I bought the middle size (8.6mm not the 9.2mm it says here) it fitted two of my instruments and gave me a clue as to whether I needed bigger or smaller for the other instruments.
Other: Why would anyone not want to make tuning the violin easy. Sure it's about £70-£100 extra cost on your instrument, but if you are not very good at tuning it could save a few broken strings. If you have acquired an old violin with stuck/slippy pegs, don't waste time with soap or peg paste, just get fine tune pegs. Easy to fit, but could catch you out if the wrong size. For me they slotted in without any reaming of holes. I then just sawed them to length. If you are really scared of fitting these go to a luthier he will probably have a range of sizes and lots of experience, but if you are confident and can measure the diameter of your existing pegs then I would say buy these and fit them yourself.
Keen Amateur
Ease of tuning!
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Pros: Fitted them to my violin and viola. No slipping or stuck pegs. Allow for fast and accurate tuning. They might not look as attractive as my original pegs, but certainly worth it. Besides, when was the last time you noticed anyone else's pegs?
Cons: Nothing that stopped me buying them!
Professional
Great aid to good tuning
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Pros: These work superbly and are an enormous asset. I'm sure they will become the standard in years to come. I can appreciate beautifully fitted tradition pegs, but wouldn't choose to make adjustment during performance!
Cons: Carry tweezers to insert new strings as you can't move the peg to align the holes to where they are easiest to insert.
Beginner
Keen Amateur
Pretty good but somehow not perfect
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Pros: Easy to fit if you get the right size. Just slide them in. These fitted first time in my Stentor. Easy to cut the end to size, hacksaw then stanley knife to finish it. If you're a fiddler (and this is why I got them) you can just tune down a semitone if some joker tries to play bluegrass in Db (ah, capos...), or even just to avoid flat keys generally which are hard to get a good fiddle sound in. Anyone who can play a good fast solo extempore that doesn't sound weak and violin-y in F sharp major is welcome to disagree, but I'll play them in 'G' every time for preference. Also, AEAE doesn't mean you have to lug a second instrument around, just a quick twiddle and you're there.
Cons: Hard to describe. Not quite as good as I'd hoped for some reason. Not entirely sure it didn't subtly change the sound of the instrument but that was how it felt to me. I'm over it now though and the utility of easy tuning changes trumps other concerns. Probably better for synthetic core strings than for metal ones.
Other: Make sure the moving part of the peg's exterior is where you want it to be in the pegbox. The G-string peg will have quite a lot of non-moving part exposed (because the box is widest here) and the string will just slide on this which isn't really desirable. A bit of care is needed in mounting them so that the string runs straight back from the nut and not diagonally. I found that because I use metal strings I never used to use the regular pegs, so the strings would stick in the nut: a bit of pencil graphite is the recommended cure for this as you'll know if you've ever read the helpful sheet you get from stringzone with every string you buy....Finally, you'll still need fine tuners if you use metal strings. Not essential perhaps, but I'd say desirable, particularly if you are a double-stopper and need the fifths absolutely true.
Keen Amateur
Excellent for steel strings. No real drawbacks.
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Pros: Neat and almost invisible update, great for steel strings and also allows my child to tune herself, avoiding string breaks when non string players try to help out. They take more time to wind as the ratio is quite fine but this allows for precise tuning and makes traditional fine tuners redundant. Also removes the occasional loss of tuning due to bangs and transit causing pegs to slip. I found I had to ream the existing pegbox out a little, not sure if you really need a dedicated reamer as the tuner only has to jam, it will not require the exact mating a tuning peg would normally require. Can't see many drawbacks, to my mind if metal strings are being used, this would seem to be the most accurate and stable system I have seen.
Cons: If I was being picky, cosmetically, I could see someone with a fine instrument may find the plastic jarring. I dare say the finish could be polished to give a high gloss which may improve it. On this violin, they look fine and from a few feet away you would need to have very good eyes to see it.
Keen Amateur
Beginner
Beginner
Keen Amateur
Wittner finetune pegs are a must have item.
Pros: Highly recommend Wittner finetune pegs, it's now so easy to tune my violin as the peg turns with ease. No more sticking pegs and less risk of breaking strings. Thanks also to String Zone for their excellent customer service and prompt dispatch of this order.
Cons: No dislikes about these fine tune pegs.
