Hi all! I'm getting a new oud soon, in fact i'm going to pick one up in istanbul coming tuesday, and it will be either a turunz or a calay. I want to
put wittner pegs into it. Some time ago there was a discussion on the forum about wittner pegs and the consensus seemed to be that you should get
viola pegs. My teacher however has an 8 course oud with a rather wide peg box. He has mostly viola pegs at the wider part, but five violin pegs at the
top. He showed me one extra violin peg he has and says that the violin pegs should be big enough on a standard six course oud. It looked convincing.
Does anyone know why everyone seemed to think you need viola pegs? The violin versions are much cheaper. Many thanks for any response!Matthias - 7-15-2014 at 03:11 PM
I had one reduced price point oud from Faruk Türünz, and now two customs also from him.
I can tell you definitely don't need to change the pegs.
They are super smooth. very easy to tune, the work is incredibly perfect.
If you want to improve the easiness of tuning, put a little graphite under the wounded string on the nut and on the part of the string witch is going
to be in contact with the nut after full tension.
The last advice would be valuable with any kind of pegs, anyway.
Have a nice trip to Istanbul.
Franckhans - 7-16-2014 at 03:44 AM
Hey! Thanks for the quick responses! Matthias, the violin pegs seemed long enough all over the peg box, so the viola pegs seem unnecessary. But many
thanks for info.
Franck, i did hear that before about turunz's pegs, so i'll try them first. But everyone seems to find wittner pegs heavenly DavidJE - 7-16-2014 at 05:23 AM
I'll second Franck's point about not needing to change the pegs on a Türünz oud. I have a reduced price and a custom oud from him, and the pegs are
PERFECT. I also have a cheap oud I bought in Istanbul, and the pegs are horrible...always slipping, impossible to keep tuned, etc. So I do have
something to compare them with.hans - 7-16-2014 at 10:05 PM
Okay! Interesting, i'll not order anything before i have tried the oud extensively (except pyramid pvf lute strings)rojaros - 7-30-2014 at 02:46 PM
I have the perfection pegs now on my both ouds, Copcuoglu and Stenzel. They are marvelous, look great, have real ebony knobs, hold the tuning and are
not overgeared (ration 1:4 is totally sufficient; we were tuning 1:1 before after all !). I wouldn't want to have plastic knobs on my oud (wood). And
they are cheaper than Wittner.Wail - 8-5-2014 at 05:43 AM
Hi,
you need to be sure of the pegs that used in the oud ... I had wittner viola pegs they are perfect when I used them at one of my ouds .. but when I
used for another oud they where very thin and did not fit for it.
