Wow! I don't know if you plan to go THAT far as that tutorial. What you describe could be Tik Tik Tik of the pegs, or the nut. Do you mean the pegs
squeak, or there are jumps when the wound strings "click" on the nut's grooves?
The pegs, if they are fitted well to their holes, can be treated with a little hard soap, this has to be a very very dry old piece of plain plain
soap. On the "rings" were the peg and pegbox mate. This will make the pegs turn very smoothly. Too smoothly. They will not hold. So you balance that
with a little chalk. Chalk will make it stop and hold. Too much hold. So it's a tricky balance you have to find, to where you can easily start it
turning, and when you stop, it stays. It takes very little of both. I have not tried peg dope, and I have not tried beeswax, but a lot of very good
old instrument luthiers only use soap and chalk.
One headache I find with oud pegs is that the taper is much "faster" than on modern violin/viola pegs, and this makes them work out very easily. So
you have to keep pushing in as you tune.
Good luck. Maybe if you explain better what the tik tik tik is ...
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