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Where Purchased: Mail Order from Rickard Banjos
Rickard's 10:1 banjo tuning pegs are the first tuners I've used in my thirty-five years of playing that work the way tuners should work. They are smooth, never lock up, and stay in tune perfectly. The 10:1 ratio makes it easy tune accurately. Never a need to go sharp and then tune down, as has been a problem with virtually every other set of pages I've used.
These pegs apparently use a new technology that I don't pretend to understand, but I don't need to understand it to know that it is the first improvement in tuning pegs since the invention of the first geared tuners.
And they're beautiful and elegant. Rickard makes them available in nickel, brass or gold, and with an assortment of different types of wood buttons. They swap right out with existing pegs; installing them took about two minutes during a string change. And to the casual observer they look just like other geared pegs.
I tend to be cranky and suspicious of innovations and alleged improvements to banjo technology; I don't give positive reviews lightly, and in fact I seldom give reviews at all. But these tuning pegs deserve some praise and acknowledgement. They are one of those rare innovations that have made a real difference in my playing.
Expensive, for sure. But so what? Something this good is worth the price.
Overall Rating: 10
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