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[alexander]

Can anyone assist with some info. I am putting new strings on an acoustic bass, Ibenez, but when I go to tune up the pegs on the bridge eject before the desired tuning pitch.
What a I doing wrong?
Any ideas.

Thanks in anticipation.

[Mobius]

It's a tricky one, they do tend to fall out easily. I usually try and hold the peg down tightly with something one hand while tuning the string up with the other, and hoping it doesn't go out when the string is tuned.

Edited December 10, 2007 by Mobius

[jacko]

If I'm understanding the problem correctly, you could try reaching through the soundhole to bend the ball end a bit then pull the string tight while pushing the peg in at the same time. Then fasten the strings at the peghead end and tune up. Keep a thumb pressing the peg in while you tune. I find this works when I change the strings on my kelly dragonfly, even with the B string.

[tauzero]

It's easiest to do if you've got more than two hands. You need to keep the peg pressed down (doesn't have to be terribly hard) while keeping some tension on the string by pulling it up or to one side (this can all be done with one hand) while turning the tuner and trying to guide the string onto the tuner shaft (this is the bit that really could do with two hands, making a grand total of three).

[2wheeler]

This is a pretty good article on slipping pegs:
[url="http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Pegs.htm"]http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Pegs.htm[/url]

I put one turn winding the "wrong" way, then double back on the winding so that the final string tension tends to pull the peg IN to the hole, as suggested in this article.

[jacko]

[quote name='2wheeler' post='102550' date='Dec 11 2007, 08:59 AM']This is a pretty good article on slipping pegs:
[url="http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Pegs.htm"]http://theorbo.com/Theorbo/Pegs.htm[/url]

I put one turn winding the "wrong" way, then double back on the winding so that the final string tension tends to pull the peg IN to the hole, as suggested in this article.[/quote]

The post is talking about tuning pegs of the violin / cello variety. The OP is on about the tailpiece pegs on acoustic (guitar shaped) basses that hold the ball end in place.

[2wheeler]

Oops - sorry. Too fast, too loose.