I have a standard soprano with friction pegs, and the tuning on them is so sensitive that the smallest amount I can move the A peg moves it by about half a step.
(It's actually bad enough that after 20 minutes of trying to get that string in tune even once, I developed an early case of UAS and have already gotten a second, nicer one with geared tuners. But I digress. I still want to make this first instrument work.)
I was thinking about mechanical advantage and realized that some kind of lever or giant wheel that you could clamp onto or fit over a peg to turn it would make it possible to use the same subtle movements as gears. Something like a chopstick with a Snark tuner clamp on one end. Has anyone developed something like this?
I know the tuning will never be as reliable, but I hate to give up on an entire instrument just for being too tiny to tune. It's a borrowed instrument, and even if it were mine to mod, it seems like there has to be a way people deal with this. People own friction peg instruments.
(It's actually bad enough that after 20 minutes of trying to get that string in tune even once, I developed an early case of UAS and have already gotten a second, nicer one with geared tuners. But I digress. I still want to make this first instrument work.)
I was thinking about mechanical advantage and realized that some kind of lever or giant wheel that you could clamp onto or fit over a peg to turn it would make it possible to use the same subtle movements as gears. Something like a chopstick with a Snark tuner clamp on one end. Has anyone developed something like this?
I know the tuning will never be as reliable, but I hate to give up on an entire instrument just for being too tiny to tune. It's a borrowed instrument, and even if it were mine to mod, it seems like there has to be a way people deal with this. People own friction peg instruments.