Re: Tuning ethnic instrument

[Victor Eijkhout <victor@eijkhout.net>]

On Apr 20, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Rick Walker wrote:

> I have heard that a lot of both saz and oud players have replaced their 
>pegs with
> either viola or cello pegs but have never tried that.

Those are just as hard to tune.

The oud that I bought a while back has so-called "peg heads". Those are 
guitar tuners hidden in what looks like violin tuning pegs. They are 
absolutely amazing. Very accurate and very smooth.

Victor.