Why am I thinking about pegs? I'm still getting over this new revelation that Elizabeth Pitcairn has installed Wittner Fine-Tune pegs in her Strad, something I learned Tuesday at a violin-testing ...

I never realized that pegs were actually made of plastic sometimes. How cheap! I had good fitting wooden pegs in both my instruments for a long time. But I've since switched to geared pegs (made by ...

This article was originally published with the title “Violin Tuning Peg” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 56 No. 20 (May 1887), p. 309 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05141887-309b ...

Using an electronic tuner is perhaps the most straightforward method for accurately tuning a violin. These devices are designed to display the pitch of the played string, allowing you to adjust the ...

You're not the only one dealing with this. Our research shows that some folks have had issues with the pegs not holding tension, causing the violin to slip out of tune fairly often. It's something you ...

Teenage girl hands tuning violin. Young woman checking pegs of violin. Closeup female violinist tuning musical instrument. Lady holding string instrument in hands Unrecognizable woman tuning acoustic ...

This article was originally published with the title “An Improved Violin Tuning Peg” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 57 No. 21(November 1887), p. 322doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11191887-322b ...