Quote: Originally posted by fernandraynaud  |
| Well, after 3 months, I'm happy that you are re-adjusting so well, and liking the oud. Look at a lot of Youtube clips to see how people hold the reesha. Of course you play at different spots depending on the tone you want, but still you're in the 1st 3rd of the string from the bridge, I can't imagine where else you would want to pick. Your wrist can't help but be bent if your arm is coming in under the midline, as many teachers recommend. If your teacher "knows his stuff", you do need to ask him (and not us) and make sure you're in tune with what he's teaching you. Buying single pegs is not easy at all. If you're using 11 strings out of 12 pegs, it's not an issue, is it? Just carefully glue the broken peg with gel superglue and keep it in the pegbox for when you need a spare. Even if you need to use it now, it will probably work. I've been using a superglue glued peg for months, I'm truly not even sure which one it is anymore. If you really are as unhappy with ALL your pegs as you previously indicated you were, you can buy 12 nice new rosewood viola pegs for about $17 with shipping from http://www.dov-music.com/, and have a violin repair shop ream the pegbox for that taper pegs and install them. They're constantly reaming and bushing and bushing and reaming violins, seeing as ebony pegs wear the khrapp out of peg holes, so they have lots of practice. It might be worth it, maybe $100 or so if you can find a local shop that's not too greedy. But then again when they see you're not installing ebony pegs, and thus are not going to be back for many bushing-reaming cycles, they may charge you a bit more |